pseudonym87

pseudonym87 has 1 years experience.

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1. CoWorker using a patient's medication

   pseudonym87 replied to BlondieRN19's topic in Relations

   I’m imploring all of my colleagues to settle down. The OP should feel free to have a forum where she can anonymously ask questions like this. After all, it’s better to be berated online than in person or behind your back my colleagues. OP- here’s ...

2. CoWorker using a patient's medication

   pseudonym87 replied to BlondieRN19's topic in Relations

   Personally, I would only report colleagues to the BON in instances of neglect, prescribing without a license, going outside of your scope and actual or potential harm to a patient due to someone’s actions. I would always first report to hospital man...

3. Why Do Nurses Quit?

   pseudonym87 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   I had a similar experience in nursing. After 4 years of the nonsense, it felt like I was constantly in a battle to simply get the resources we needed to care for our patients. I quit 1.5 years ago and I haven’t looked back ever since. Every now and t...

4. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

   pseudonym87 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   In my previous comments I had more sympathy for the nurse. I’m fact I assumed that there was some sort of short staffing issue that may have led to this. But after reading the legal documents and the nurses own confession, she clearly was grossly neg...

5. I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

   pseudonym87 replied to rnfrombama's topic in General Nursing

   The beautiful thing about nursing is that there is a plethora of opportunities away from the bedside. Nursing is a beautiful profession, but at some point, some of us, need to step away from the bedside. Dont start hating the nursing profession. Con...

6. I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

   pseudonym87 replied to rnfrombama's topic in General Nursing

   First, I want to address the fact that you’re making valid points regarding the mistreatment of nurses by management and physicians. I’ve experienced it and dealt with it and is one of the contributing factors as to why I left the bedside. The other,...

7. Assessing the student on drugs

   pseudonym87 replied to cjl_RN's topic in School

   I'm not a school nurse, but after reading the consistency among all of you in your responses, it makes me really glad to see you advocating for the students and not allowing your position to be used in unethical manners! You guys rock!

8. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

   pseudonym87 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   vec was removed from Pyxis at 1459, code was called at 1529. During this 30 minute period is when the vec was administered.

9. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

   pseudonym87 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Beautiful said! @MunroRn

10. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    pseudonym87 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    How does it not make sense? It's proven in the literature that organ with blame-culture yield to under reporting of incidents.

11. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    pseudonym87 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Susie I agree with you. I'm not concerned with the consequences of being fired on the individual nurse. Instead, I'm more concerned with other nurses being afraid to speak up or document incidents if they see punivitive solutions to medication errors...

12. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    pseudonym87 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, to err is human. That's a fact of life. We can either use this as a lesson to make sure this never happens again or we can be vultures and breed a culture that promotes keeping secrets instead of reporting yourself. If we want sentinel...

13. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    pseudonym87 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I see the point you're making and I agree with you. When someone comes to work impaired or diverts drugs even once, this person's license is subject to revocation. Usually, however, the Board of Nursing allows second chances. You should read your boa...

14. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    pseudonym87 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. Absolutely gross negligence. The entire person needs to be assessed- her work performance evaluations, previous incidents, etc. Using The Whole Person method, she can be appropriately disciplined and absent any evidence pointing to a PATTERN...

15. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    pseudonym87 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Texas law further explains violations of the NPA as Providing information which was false, deceptive, or misleading in connection with the practice of nursing; By adjudicating action against a nurse without having all of the information a Board of Nu...