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  1. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    You are misunderstanding me. Please, please go back to page 15 or so and read everything up to this point. I explained why she should not be charged with "reckless homicide" and it has nothing to do...

  2. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    To borrow most of your words to make a point: Ignoring basic principals of medication administration that are drilled into our heads from the very beginning is not a mistake. For heavens sake she...

  3. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I wish you would go back and read my post about that. But you have a right to your opinion and of course the law will be interpreted based on others' opinions. I hope the jury shares my opinion of...

  4. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    JadedCPN, yes she caused the death, yes she is to blame. That doesn't mean she's guilty of reckless homicide. Hopefully you read previous posts about this. So are you saying you would feel it was...

  5. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, you are impressive and I wish we could all be as strong as you! Definitely an inspiring story and will strive to do the same if I ever end up working in such a place again. I still wonder about...

  6. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    It's not exactly the same thing. What if she did not know she was speeding down a one way street? What if she had no doubt in her mind that she was on the right street, speeding yes, but knowing she...

  7. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Well, just semantics about "mistake", but whatever you call what you did which you did not do on purpose (you intended right med for right person), I am very grateful that it did not cause you to no...

  8. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Mistake just means "accidentally; in error". Since she didn't set out to kill this patient on purpose, I call it a mistake. "Bad decision" requires more thought, and I think the problem was she was...

  9. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    What she did does not fit the definition of reckless homicide. Hopefully I chose a good source to quote the following: "Beyond the realm of acceptable to the degree..." -- this subjectivity is why...

  10. Anyone else regret becoming a nurse?

    mtnNurse. replied to Florida Sun RN's topic in General Nursing

    That's how I felt too...even though if I could do it all over again I would not be a nurse, I already am now, so I may as well keep looking for a nursing job that isn't as stressful. I do not...

  11. Just told can't wear scrubs to work. Any suggestions?

    mtnNurse. replied to dbabz's topic in Psychiatric

    I would say overalls with all the useful pockets they have, but the metal clasps could be too risky if one got lose and was swinging around in a turbulent moment with a patient. But look into...

  12. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    There is always more to a story than what you read in a newspaper. We don't know what experience and training this nurse had, what kind of pressure from supervisors was being put on her, what was...

  13. Is it just me or is nursing school not as difficult as everyone makes it sound?

    mtnNurse. replied to Nicolecn's topic in General Students

    Do you wish it were harder or are you glad it isn't? If the former, there are plenty of ways to challenge yourself and no limit to how much more you can learn. You could do so by researching online...

  14. Already Over Bedside...

    mtnNurse. replied to Cruzan_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how facilities are going to keep enough nurses if these issues aren't fixed. I'd like to know the past 50 yr. history of this situation; the older nurses where I worked said it didn't...

  15. Anyone else regret becoming a nurse?

    mtnNurse. replied to Florida Sun RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry for all the bad experiences you've had being a nurse, after all the hard work it takes to become one. I can relate to your feeling of regret. So much so that I would advice most anyone to...

  16. Most Burned Out Nursing Specialties?

    mtnNurse. replied to Mursthetics's topic in General Nursing

    After three years in MedSurg, I was burnt out and almost every single nurse I worked with was also. Not because of what it takes to be a nurse...we loved caring for the patients. But because of...

  17. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    You are AWESOME for telling your supervisor you won't take more patients because it's not safe. But we aren't taught how to do this in nursing school, and it seems so unlikely to be able to do this...

  18. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I think nurses' desire to help people rather than kill them is enough incentive to do everything they can to care for patients safely. They don't need the incentive of punishment to want to do right...

  19. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I don't believe in the moments she killed the patient that she was aware she might be killing the patient. Every single time you drive a car, are you aware that you might hit and kill someone by...

  20. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    EXACTLY!!! I've been trying to figure out how to put these thoughts of my own into a concise paragraph and you did it for me! There is a huge gap between what nursing school teaches us is the right,...

  21. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's pretty unlikely she was aware that her behavior might kill that patient, because if she had been then she would not have behaved in the way she did. She was being mindless and made the...

  22. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    If you had the power to put even more safeguards in place to help prevent future mistakes, could you think of any? Here's some I thought of and I'd love to hear more from others: * Hire enough...

  23. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    THANK YOU both for pointing out what I think it most always boils down to -- patients aren't safe because of unrealistic work loads and not enough staff. No amount of new initiatives to fix safety...

  24. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    mtnNurse. replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Would this happen to a doctor if a fatal mistake was

  25. Indecisive about job situation?

    mtnNurse. replied to mzsuccess's topic in Nursing Career

    yeah, I figured there were probably more unpleasant things going on. I'm surprised you want to find another job in addiction after your experience. I'm guessing that the cursing, sexual remarks, and...