Okay so I am a second year nursing student in medicine unit... clinicals have been really nerve wrecking and I feel like I am at the edge but I really pray I pass
okay so the situation was that
The patient I had today has a history of ascites and edema so the patient is given lasix 120mg IV OD at 1000 for the fluid overload and all. So today I gave the lasix 120mg IV at 1000 which was due. At 1150, I saw the physician order that the physician changed the order from lasix 120mg IV to lasix 160mg PO BID (0830 and 1750) when I saw the order, I checked the med room to see if it's in the med room for me to dispense but it wasn't so I had to wait until 1350 to give the lasix 160mg PO.
please make me understand , did I make a med error, did I overload the patient with even more fluid because my preceptor was grilling me about this
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Okay so I am a second year nursing student in medicine unit... clinicals have been really nerve wrecking and I feel like I am at the edge but I really pray I pass
okay so the situation was that
The patient I had today has a history of ascites and edema so the patient is given lasix 120mg IV OD at 1000 for the fluid overload and all. So today I gave the lasix 120mg IV at 1000 which was due. At 1150, I saw the physician order that the physician changed the order from lasix 120mg IV to lasix 160mg PO BID (0830 and 1750) when I saw the order, I checked the med room to see if it's in the med room for me to dispense but it wasn't so I had to wait until 1350 to give the lasix 160mg PO.
please make me understand , did I make a med error, did I overload the patient with even more fluid because my preceptor was grilling me about this