Help...med counseling

[napa]

Hi all

I have a little problem. I am an LPN with one year of experience now. I have worked at one place only so far. I was ok with my job. I do the med pass to 40 residents in a nursing home. as all of you(nurses) know, it is really hard to do a perfect "everything by the book" when you have this amount of residents to give meds to.

Right now I am ok with it. I was not taking a morning brake to be able to do the med pass on time and be in the dinnig room for lunch. I found my shortcuts to do it and I know all the residents very well. so , I do the job. One of the shortcuts i was using was flip the med sheets to see if there were any new orders then sign the meds first then pop them out. last week the staff dev. coordinator showed up to evaluate my med pass. she caugh me in the middle of doing so. she wrote a paper where it says that it is a counsiling , however next action would result in a formal warning. Now my question is, should i quit my job since i now have this record on my file? please advice me.

att.

new nurse

[redessa]

napa, I'm sorry but you need to start your own thread rather than asking a new question unrelated to the original post.

Thanks

[chloecatrn]

No, you shouldn't quit because you have a counseling on your record. This isn't a punitive action. It's designed to show you that you're not documenting things according to the policy of your facility, which I'm assuming is pop-pass-sign, and it's the facility's documentation for your record that you've been talked to about the proper way of documenting a med pass. They don't want you to sign off meds before they're given, because if Betty Boop in room 890 refuses her Colace, and you document that it's given, and don't get a chance to unchart that, it's officially a med error. It might not seem like a big thing, but if poor Betty ends up with a fecal impaction down the road and you're charting that she's getting her Colace every night, you can see where there would be some trouble.

Just make sure that you're documenting your med passes the proper way, and there shouldn't be any further problems! Good luck to you!

[Sparrowhawk]

Yeah don't quit your job! It's just a correction for better...

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

No, don't quit. You're not in trouble. Just stop doing it that way.

:)