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Medication errors happen to all of us, but the expectation is that you will learn from the error and not repeat it. If you've made a second medication error within a short period of time, most colleagues or managers would be concerned.
At my facility, a learning plan is usually provided for repeated practice issues, in addition to verbal and written warnings.
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How many med errors are acceptable for a new grad RN at a teaching hospital before considering termination?
None. As in, a medication error is never "acceptable." It is a problem to be reviewed, remedied, and with re-education taking place.
As to how many you can commit before termination: 100% facility/management/P&P specific. Therefore, none of us can answer that question.
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"teaching hospital" refers to a hospital that has a medical student/residency teaching program. Nurses are hired without any "teaching" in mind, you are expected to do your job correctly from the get-go.
On October 7th, you posted about asking for a recommendation from your unit manager for another job. Is this related.....or is this a guessing game kind of question?
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"teaching hospital" refers to a hospital that has a medical student/residency teaching program. Nurses are hired without any "teaching" in mind, you are expected to do your job correctly from the get-go.
Excellent point and I hope people don't think that just because a facility is called a teaching hospital it means errors are embraced. Its a fact of life that errors happen but hopefully we can learn from our mistakes as well as the mistakes of others who went before us.
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Medication errors are never acceptable, meaning, sure, no big deal, it's only a senna... but they are expected. We are human [or time lord ] and mistakes will be made. As many PPs have stated, what is acceptable and expected as well is to use those as opportunities to learn from the mistake and move on.
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Want to elaborate? Why are these errors being made? What kinds of errors are they? Are patients being harmed? What is going on?