Coworker and medication errors

If you see a med error you need to follow your unit's/facility's policy for reporting med errors. It doesn't matter how major/minor it is. Let your manager decide from there how things should be handled. It shouldn't be your job to talk to your co-worker about her med errors.

Right just stay out of it. And then when something major happens/patient safety is compromised you'll be the one that could have warned the nurse, manager, and who knows who else before it happened. But yeah, just stay out of it, I'm sure that will end well.

She already has warned/informed the nurse making the errors and the boss. Hopefully, she will do one more "warning", actually an informing, a notification, IN WRITING, KEEPING A COPY FOR HERSELF, and that should go to the nurse, the manager, and the manager's manager. Then she can be done with it - I think.

I hate that nurses rat on each other. But I guess if she sees the problems, she's got to address them. Don't know - kind of a tough call. Why, OP, are you finding all these errors? And aren't some of them maybe just the nurse forgot to sign them off?

She already has warned/informed the nurse making the errors and the boss. Hopefully, she will do one more "warning", actually an informing, a notification, IN WRITING, KEEPING A COPY FOR HERSELF, and that should go to the nurse, the manager, and the manager's manager. Then she can be done with it - I think.

I hate that nurses rat on each other. But I guess if she sees the problems, she's got to address them. Don't know - kind of a tough call. Why, OP, are you finding all these errors? And aren't some of them maybe just the nurse forgot to sign them off?

I wish it was a matter of just forgetting to sign things off that were given although that happens every shift also. Most often it is missing new orders that never get signed off on or started. Again it hasn't been anything especially dangerous but if the order is for Cogentin IM either read it and give it correctly or get them to change the order before you give it PO and c'mon if the physician wants an antibiotic started this morning, start it this morning. If it doesn't get signed off the pharmacy doesn't send it to the unit and am orders shouldn't still be in limbo land at 7pm when I come in.

Thank you to everyone for writing with your insight and advice.

Is she missing colace, or blood pressure medicine? IMO, the specifics of the errors DO matter.

It is more likely to be the colace hence my reluctance to make a big deal out of it but in the past two weeks there were 8 "colaces" and it really isn't about being too busy or lazy. I think it is more about a disconnect in the thought process somewhere.