I almost got kicked out of my program from ONE mistake!

Long story short, I almost passed a med to a patient without the instructor directly present.

Short story long, one of my postpartum patients was in pain and asked for a percocet to help relieve the pain. I told my instructor about the complaint and she went to the medcart and withdrew the narcotic and gave it to me to hold. Meanwhile, she was documenting on the computer another medication withdrawl for another student.

Me, not thinking went into the patients room and opened the med and put it in her hand. My instructor walks in and sees me and takes it back to properly document and administer.

Today, I was called to the directors office and had to recall the incident. I confessed the truth to what had happened and was told in lieu of dismissal, I had to write a paper on the Patient Safety Goals and was suspended from attending this weeks clinical, which I think is a fair punishment.

I just had to get this out so it's not stuck on my head all semester. The only thing I'm worried about is this somehow biting in the butt in the long run... which something tells me it will.