Medication Error

[jeane1090]

Feeling extremely anxious and incompetent about myself right now. I am a new Registered Nurse and just started practicing about three months ago. Last week I had to give my patient Albumin IV. I followed my facilities policy and started the infusion. I stayed with the patient for the first 15 minutes and ensured that my drip was running, and it seemed like it was running fine. The pump beeped to signal it was done so I put the pump on standby mode. This was at 2300. At 0600 I went in to administer a IV med and realized that only half of the infusion went in. I realize now that I forgot to open the vent which prevented full administration. I feel like such an idiot and this has been consuming my mind all week.

[Davey Do]

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[queencityRN]

I completely get this Jeane. I have the same fear, but it really just makes me a more careful nurse (even if I drive myself crazy.) Take the advice of some of the other posters--when you start feeling this extreme anxiety, tell yourself the worst that could happen wouldn't kill you. You would survive.

[Hoosier_RN, MSN]

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[rayman356307, BSN, RN]

ugh I hate albumin, those glass bottles are honestly the worse. The most annoying thing for me is priming the line, though I figured it's just easier to pull the albumin through with a syringe at the last port (where you usually give IVP) then pull maybe a couple extra CCs then push it to the end.