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I am also a new nurse and I have had the same thing happen on our floor. I work nights and there are those days that the order goes unnoticed until we do our chart checks in the middle of the night. I think it ultimately falls back on the nurse that was on while the order was written. Take it up with that nurse, in a assertive way, and just know that when you follow that nurse you should check the chart before giving any meds. As to if you will get hired at another hospital....of course you will. You are not the only nurse to ever make a medication error and you won't be the last ( hint: just read the thread about the Dilantin error and you will feel bettter) One nurse told me when I came into nursing, that every nurse has made a medication error at one point in their career, whether it is giving Protonix at the wrong time or something very severe. If you ask any nurse if he/she has made a medication error and they say "no", they are lying! Keep your head up...and maybe try the same floor at night, which is slower paced or find another floor.

Never. Was the pt a DNR??