huh!!, hi everyone, i'm a new lpn grad working in the nrsghome for about 3months, i got my first write up yesterday!! you see i work at night, and usually the night nurse audits the md order book to the mar to verify the new med orders, so i audited and made sure that the orders in the md order book and the mar matched, but i missed 1 order and the patient did not get an additional 3mg of coumadin for 4 days!, until another night nurse caught it!! so the supervisior basically gave me a good yelling at plus a sympathetic pat on the back! she told me that i was doing well but this med error is unacceptable and so i was written up!!. the thing is i was building up my confidence and much of my anxiety as a new nurse was going away, now that this happened i feel that anxiety coming back!! i even know where i went wrong, i kinda rushed through the auditing that night because the shift was ending and i was working a double shift and had to get to the next unit!! i realize that i make mistakes when i rush and things get hectic. the supervisior had spoke to me before about other little things i forgot to do!! all in all its a learning lesson and the other nurses tell me its one big learning process, but its so scary, when things go wrong, no one cares about how inexperienced you are!! i just needed to vent!! my i's and t's will definitely be dotted and crossed after this!! thanks for listening!!
thanks everyone for the responses, yes i was thinking to mention to the supervisior about better ways to improve the system but maybe alittle later, i dont want to seem as if i'm making excuses, you know how some manangers can take things, especially since i'm new at this facility and i'm a new grad! most of the supervisors at this facility are nice, but this supervisor is a bit uptight, but whatever thats besides the point. another thing is that new orders are supposed to be flagged by the day nurse and whatever is flagged is audited, but i do not know if it was flagged! either way, i'm taking this as a learning experience, now i will check the entire md order book over, flagged or not! not that i'm making an excuse but this really makes me think about the fact that you can get in trouble for another nurses's mistakes and you have no way of proving its not your fault! i bet this happens! thanx everyone!
gt4everpn, BSN, RN
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thanks everyone for the responses, yes i was thinking to mention to the supervisior about better ways to improve the system but maybe alittle later, i dont want to seem as if i'm making excuses, you know how some manangers can take things, especially since i'm new at this facility and i'm a new grad! most of the supervisors at this facility are nice, but this supervisor is a bit uptight, but whatever thats besides the point. another thing is that new orders are supposed to be flagged by the day nurse and whatever is flagged is audited, but i do not know if it was flagged! either way, i'm taking this as a learning experience, now i will check the entire md order book over, flagged or not! not that i'm making an excuse but this really makes me think about the fact that you can get in trouble for another nurses's mistakes and you have no way of proving its not your fault! i bet this happens! thanx everyone!