Nursing Error

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The view of a nursing error varies widely among nurses. What is your view of a nursing error?

Specializes in OB (with a history of cardiac).

I made a nursing error the other night- it was from pure laziness, I admit it. My 13 month old daughter woke up for her middle of the night snack- I brought her into bed with my hubby and I, and was too dang lazy to put her back in the crib, so she chug a lugged to her hearts content and I slept. That was my nursing error. :bugeyes:

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

here is what nurses think when they make an error.

nurse's suicide highlights twin tragedies of medical errors

kimberly hiatt killed herself after overdosing a baby, revealing the anguish of caregivers who make mistake

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photo courtesy lyn hiattkimberly hiatt, a longtime critical care nurse at seattle children's hospital, committed suicide in april, seven months after accidentally overdosing a fragile baby.

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

I will echo what everyone else has said....this is an impossible question to answer. I guess in its most simple terms "nurse error" is a mistake made be a nurse. Not trying to be a smarta**, but just trying to illustrate it can mean different things for everyone.

Some ideas: serious (perhaps fatal) med errors, minor med error (e.g. giving 325 mg of ASA instead of 324 mg), forgetting to get VS before discharging a pt, giving an NPO pt something to eat, shutting you finger in the med room door...and about 800,000+ other things.

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