Katr

I appreciate your response. I did feel horrible about it, however you managed to make me feel horrible twice so thank you for that! Luckily I never made a mistake again and I read up deeply on patient care something I was never informed about. I think putting me down saying "if I manage to stay at my site" was unnecessary. Everyone has to learn, nobody was hurt in the process luckily and I won't ever make those patient care mistakes again. It's mean people like you that make it hard to want to stay in healthcare. I guess that's why they call it a mean girl profession. I hope you know everyone starts someone and I came on here vulnerable about a mistake I had made. I'm sure youve made plenty in your career but I'm not here talking down on you about it. Take it easy

I am a sonography extern. I am in the emergency room and I had a patient who was demanding to use the restroom and stood up off his bed. He tried ribbing out his IV himself, his IV had no more antibiotics in it and was done. I untwisted the IV and let him use the restroom then twisted it back on. My reasoning was the IV was already beeping and done and it was only clindamycin. I am not supposed to touch IV's and I felt like an idiot and got in so much trouble. I think they just worry I'll remove a more serious one. I would have never done it if it was and all I did was untwist. I won't do it again but now I fear I'll be removed from my site.