pinkrose01

I just want to thank everybody for responding to my comment. By the way, I am new to this forum. I knew that I was going to get support from others by commenting but I never knew that it was going to make such a difference in the way that I felt. I am so gad that I joined. Now that I have had a couple of days to reflect on the incident I realized that several factors contributed to the mistake. First of all I'm used to giving medications by IV route and not by IM, I also so unexperienced that I get so preoccupied by the task itself and it's hard for me to think about anything else at that time but getting it done. Never the less, I have learned a good lesson and from now on I will check myself several times before giving any medications.

Help!!! I am a newly graduated RN who's been working for two weeks. Today, I had my first medication error. I administered Tigan (anti-emetic) IV and it should have been administered IM. I reported it to my unit manager and director and also filled out a incident report. Everybody in the floor was very supportive and understanding. However, I feel horrible!! The patient didn't seem to have any effects other than some drowsiness. I am so scared because I don't know how harmful this could be to the pt. I did some research on this topic and there is not a lot of information on IV administration of this medication. I would really appreciate any information about my dilemma. :imbar:imbar:imbar:sniff::sniff: