Thank you everyone for the feedback! I accept responsibility for what happened and know this experience will make me become a better nurse! I just hope my future employer will be sympathetic!
I did call the day shift nurse and she came back with the keys a little over an hour later, and that's when I rechecked the CBG and administer the insulin.
i am a new grad and was working at a snf for 3 weeks when i had an incident where the day shift nurse went home with the only backup keys to the treatment cart so i did not have access to the resident's insulin before their meals. notified the rcm an...