Published
This is really sad. But.. it is beyond me how a woman with peds and critical care experience can miss an NG and "feed" a baby through their IV lines...
Hospitals in this country generally have "check offs" when you start.Now we know why.
I've heard of crazier things done by experienced nurses. You can have all the expereince in the world and all the "check offs" that will fit on a sheet of paper, but all it takes is one distraction to cause a horrific mistake. I can promise you, that if that hospital had had an exclusive enteral feeding system, this would never have happened. It is impoossible to hook it up to any IV set. If your hospital doesn't have one, look into it. If you think this would never happen to you, think again.
I've heard of crazier things done by experienced nurses. You can have all the expereince in the world and all the "check offs" that will fit on a sheet of paper, but all it takes is one distraction to cause a horrific mistake. I can promise you, that if that hospital had had an exclusive enteral feeding system, this would never have happened. It is impoossible to hook it up to any IV set. If your hospital doesn't have one, look into it. If you think this would never happen to you, think again.
.....but it wasn't the point of the story.
It wasn't an experienced nurse that made the mistake, it was someone brand new and it was their first day on the floor.
That made this particular situation avoidable.
Where was the supervising nurse? Or do they turn them lose on the floor in that country right after graduation from nursing school?
.....but it wasn't the point of the story.It wasn't an experienced nurse that made the mistake, it was someone brand new and it was their first day on the floor.
That made this particular situation avoidable.
Where was the supervising nurse? Or do they turn them lose on the floor in that country right after graduation from nursing school?
This situation was avoidable no matter who the nurse was. And for the record, as mentioned, it was an expereinced nurse.
RN4Little1s
113 Posts
Have you read about this nurse who worked her 1st day in the NICU... and gave formula through an IV?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8076645