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Thank you so much, that does make me feel a little better.

They determined if he did, it would not have been enough to cause the code. The only amount missing from the bag was just about enough to prime the tubing.

No, no debriefing.

I made a medication error yesterday and I am mortified! My patient was in afib with rvr. HR = 200's. Very symptomatic. I had received an order from the doctor about an hour earlier to start an amiodarone bolus and drip and lopresser q 5 minutes for rate control for a maximum of 15 mg in an hour. I had run the bolus and had the maintenance drip infusing when the Patient became symptomatic. Prior to this he was not and hr was about 150. I gave two doses of the lopresser and called the doctor to let him know patient was getting worse. I was alone for all this, charge nurse and manager were in a meeting. Everyone else was with their own patients. Doctor told me to give last dose of lopresser and if no improvement start on cardizem drip. I transcribed the medication wrong and put in cardene by mistake. I by this time managed to catch another nurses attention and asked if she would help me. She told me she would call pharmacy and get the drip for me. She pulled the cardene and primed the tubing and connected to the patient. The IV pump started beeping that there was air in the line at the same moment the patient coded. I yelled for a code blue and we began CPR. He regained a pulse, was intubated and transferred to ICU. I am being reprimanded for the medication error. I feel awful! Do you think I caused this patient to code? I dont even want to be a nurse anymore.

i recently graduated in december and currently have $15,000 in school loan debt. the hospital i am working for, which i just started working for, will pay $10,000 of my student debt if i sign a two year contract. i have to wait to sign the contract after i have been employed 90 days. some of the nurses i have talked to who do not work at hospital have said do not sign a contract. it seems like a good deal but i dont want to get trapped in a job i hate but if i stay for two years and do not sign a contract i will feel guilty. what are some opinions about this? has any one signed a contract and not regretted it?