NursingPhDstudent

In my opinion, yes medication errors are terrible, but if you report them and take the right steps to mitigate the issue - you could be saving that patient's life. I have seen nurses who chose to not report medication errors, and then the next nurse double doses the patient without even knowing it. I work with children, and am a new nurse who is in graduate school as well - the doctors and nurse managers understand mistakes happen - we need to have the responsibility of reporting the incident and notifying the patient and other staff to asses the issue so that the patient recovers fully. (I also cried after giving Benadryl instead of tylenol to a patient, and the poor kid was sleeping the whole afternoon - but I took vitals every hour on the dot to ensure the child recovered! And in four house - the kiddo was fine...). But this still haunted me for the entire day...nursing is rough, and other nurses should support new nurses instead of supporting negligent nurses who do not own up to errors! And everyone has made errors..we just need to change it so it does not happen again!