Need published example of bad nurse patient communication causing tragety

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I am doing a speech on communication in nursing for my communications class. I would like to open with a gripping story about how a lack of good communication with a patient led to an avoidable bad outcome.

I have been searching online but have not found any news articles about such an event.

Can anyone think of any examples that may have been published somewhere?

It would be a big help :)

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Specializes in Public Health, TB.

I have limited access at home, but suggest you try "sentinel event" , "case study", and or "safe hand-off" as search terms.

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or mortality rate....

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Specializes in Early Intervention, Nsg. Education.

How about errors related to d/c instructions, med administration errors, allergies, etc that happened as a result of using family members as ad-hoc interpreters? http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/534045_2

MM

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Maybe a spelling error caused something bad to happen

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Specializes in Early Intervention, Nsg. Education.
Maybe a spelling error caused something bad to happen

Yes, that's been a big one. Check phenytoin and fosphenytoin :http://www.fda.gov/downloads/advisorycommittees/committeesmeetingmaterials/drugs/peripheralandcentralnervoussystemdrugsadvisorycommittee/ucm231776.pdf

Lots of good stuff pops up if you google "nurse communication med errors lookalike soundalike."

mm

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check out the story about Josie King. They now have a website to bring attention to their story. www.josieking.org

Get your klennex though, its's a tear jerker!!

Hope that helps!

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