Paying for Meds that you dropped or vial broke??

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One of the nurses in my hospital accidently dropped a Fentanyl injection ampoule and it broke. The Hospital is asking her to pay for it.

I wonder if any of you guys have heard of similar instances

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Specializes in Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing.
One of the nurses in my hospital accidently dropped a Fentanyl injection ampoule and it broke. The Hospital is asking her to pay for it.

I wonder if any of you guys have heard of similar instances

Ummm, this is horribly off topic - why don't you go start a different thread about this?

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Moved to new thread.

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Some states require that the damage be willful in order to make the employee pay for it.

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

That has got to be a record new low. :smokin:

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I've never heard of such a thing (in >25 years of nursing) ...

In fact, I work in psych, and a few different employers have paid over the years to replace my glasses when they were broken by clients in the course of my doing my job.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.
one of the nurses in my hospital accidently dropped a fentanyl injection ampoule and it broke. the hospital is asking her to pay for it.

i wonder if any of you guys have heard of similar instances

no, i have not. however, nothing surprises me any more when it comes to the treatment of nurses by today's employers.

-waiting for the day (in 10-20 years) when we will be in demand again...

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Specializes in Developmental Disabilites,.

Never heard of this and I have dropped / broke the vials of some real expensive meds.

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I've been reading over NY's dept of labor and similar info the past week or two, and this is not allowed save for certain circumstances. Just have your friend read into your state's dept of labor / labor laws - very dry, but useful material.

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Specializes in Medical Surgical Orthopedic.

Wow! I drop and break ampules all the time. I guess I should be more careful ....and more careful about steering the computer-on-wheels into walls and doorways, too. I would quit a job in a hurry if I were penalized for being clumsy. :down:

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Specializes in ER, ICU.

That must be part of their employee appreciation and retention program. I'm sure that collecting from that nurse will totally be worth in terms of health care dollars recovered. This will probably solve the whole crisis! I'm definitely going to be more careful in the future! Just yesterday I broke a whole bunch of stuff on purpose just for the fun of it. I assume they have a process to investigate breakage to see if it was intentional or not. Something like an overhead page of a code "glass". This way a team could respond and assign blame for the breakage. Perhaps the med was improperly packaged, or the Pyxsis malfunctioned. That way no vial of fentanyl will go unbilled. I'm going to get myself some med breakage insurance. You have to be ******* kidding me!

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

I would call the states attorney general.......the are really not allowed to do this except in malicious intent.

http://www.canmybossdothat.com/

that is inclusive of harrassing and intimidating workers.

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