Bricksoup3

Been there done that, I really appreciate your your useful and informative comment. Thanks for that ??

Welp. I made a med error. 3yrs into ER nursing. Ratios here are 4 patients. A few weeks ago I had 4 patients placed in one room for rabies vaccines. Well over 10 shots total. So that's 7 patients total in my assignment. Ended up that one of the 4 was registered under the wrong patient chart. Same name, same age, just different birth date. We didn't find out until we were about to discharge. Luckily weights and everything were accurate so no harm to the patient. Still very embarrassing. Anyway. We are having a meeting with risk management next week. I've already spoke to my directors about it so this will be a second meeting. They will have the registration employee that made the chart, the charge nurse and triage nurse that saw them before me as well. (Not the provider that charted the whole visit and ordered everything though LOL). Would it be wise to have a lawyer available for contact during this time? Feeling very torn up about all this. Any advice would be appreciated.