...Heh, I'm a nursing student and I'm like 4weeks from graduation but unfortunately I made some critical errors including a med error this past week and I'm about to be possibly dismissed. I was told however that I have a chance to present my case and be possibly put on probation but since I never had this experience before I dont know what my chances are of getting the probation vs dismissal.
Basically what happened is that I gave a blood pressure medication when the pts BP was like 96/61 and didnt remember to inform the charge nurse about the low BP. The other thing is that I totally forgot to assess the dressing on a spinal surgery patient and still forgot to chart that, and never remembered to go back and assess this pt at the end of the shift. This happened on an extremely busy day. These where the two most recent incidents and from the way our director reacted where the most serious. Previously before though I had been written up for asking if I could use the tubing for Potassium to administer an IV antibiotic, plus not remembering if a pt of mine had bladder cancer.
Now our handbook says that for such offenses "a student may be placed on probation or a recommendation for dismissal may be made" so theres still a chance of me getting probation versus getting an all out dismissal. Our director says I should write my version of what happened and strongly present my case come Monday (6/20), but I've never been in this situation before and dont know what will go well in the ears of nursing faculty. So I basically came here for help and welcome all advise on how I should go about presenting my case, and what I should present (paperwork, essays, e.t.c). I really welcome all advise no matter how silly or unrelevant it might seem. Thanks.
