jenna84

Yes I meant college of nurses. Not the nursing school...

Hello, I made an medication error. The longterm care centre that I am working asked me to pour the pills to unlabelled dosette. I poured wrong patient's medication to the dosette during the night shift. And a different day shift nurse gave the dosette to the resident. Luckily, the resident recognized that the pills look different and did not take the pills. Since the work setting is a government running long tern care centre, I might get a phone call from the administrative;however, the manager is telling me that she can also report me to the nursing college for not doing my job correctly ie. checking 5Rs. Another nurse told me that they should not report me for this because the resident did not actually take the pills. So it is more like a near miss incident. Can I be reported to the college for this incident? Please let me know. Thank you.

Hello, I am relatively new in nursing. I graduated in 2008. After working in a big city for about a year, I had to move to a small city due to family issues. Here, in the small town, it is hard to get a full time job, so I am a casual nurse. To make sufficient income, I got another job as a casual RN at the longterm centre. Surprisingly, I find myself enjoy working at the longterm centre very much. More than acute setting in the hospital, and they are offering me permanent part time job... However, I am so afraid that if I go into longterm nursing care area now, I might loose all my nursing skills that I have built up during the consolidation and clinical.... I really don't know what to do... Any suggestions??