I am a rather new nurse, couple months in. I have debated coming on here to vent/ get opinions but kept deciding not to. I was laying in bed and can't get my mind of the topic as it makes me sick to my stomach thinking about it. So here I am writing about what happened.
A couple nights ago I got pulled to the side by my shift lead, which I have a really good relationship with. Without going into to much detail regarding the situation I was basically questioned/accused of giving a patient double dose of IV diflucan. Apparently there was a mistake with the medication drawers and the wrong dose was dispensed. The day shift nurse caught it and saw the previous one hung was the wrong dose and the patient had received to much. She reported to the day shift manager it was me that hung it.
Wel i didn't get in trouble. I didn't get yelled at but was told to be more cautious in future. Now for this to happen either there was a glitch in the MAR that allowed me to scan it or I would have had to override the Med without scanning.
One i I don't recall giving the medication at all. I know every patient I handed off to the nurse and 3/5 didn't get IV meds at all. And the ones that did I remember what I hung. Two Typically diflucan is administered once a day. And if day shift nurse was administering it I wouldn't have administered it on my shift. Maybe the nurse before me but not me.
I asked what patient it was and they couldn't even tell me as they weren't sure. I'm upset about it because I really feel I'm being blamed for something I didn't do. And regardless if i got in trouble it makes me sick thinking people think I did something so Careless. And deep down even if I think I didn't do it I'm kinda curious if I did somehow do it but there's no proof or nothing.
Everytime I see that nurse that reported it was me kinda makes me sick to my stomach and mad inside. I just want proof so I can own up to the mistaken if I did do it and if not i want an apology but none of this will happen. I don't know how to move forward except to be cautious from here on out and if I see any hanging meds I didn't hang double check them so I can report them before they are reported as me doing them? I don't know. Feeling kind of defeated.
I'm one for owning up to medication errors that are made. However, that should be for medication errors actually made. That doesn't mean you should take any blame for errors that you didn't make.
I agree with the others--respectfully request proof. It's very easy to run an activity report on the Pyxis/EMR, so there should be no reason why that can't happen. If you have a union, ask your steward for their thoughts.
Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN
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I'm one for owning up to medication errors that are made. However, that should be for medication errors actually made. That doesn't mean you should take any blame for errors that you didn't make.
I agree with the others--respectfully request proof. It's very easy to run an activity report on the Pyxis/EMR, so there should be no reason why that can't happen. If you have a union, ask your steward for their thoughts.