MedSurg2

I cannot remember if I scanned the bag or not, but it is a two nurse check off and the other nurse did not catch it either. The patient was screaming in pain and I had been pulled from another room where I was trying to start an IV and rushed in to hang a new bag. The whole situation was rushed. I'm nervous about having to meet with the anesthesiologist, my manager, quality control - it is all very overwhelming. There were no adverse effects to the patient thankfully.

I made a med error at work. I hung a Fentanyl bag for an epidural instead of the Fentanyl/bupivacaine bag for an epidural patient. I feel terrible and so disappointed in myself. I work on a medsurg floor where we rarely see epidural patients and the bags were stacked on top of each other in the med fridge. There are no excuses, but I feel so bad and I'm dreading the debrief meeting.