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Yes I feel like they should have clued me in on this, it makes me wonder that this may happen often.you can pass meds on your own but she was right there beside me as I was scanning all the meds.baseline hr was 55-59. No he had been on this med for a while I believe it was ordered bid or tid. Thanks for the comments I've just had a rough week since losing my job. I even started wondering if this was the field for me. I felt horrible, like it was something that shouldn't have happened and maybe I shouldn't be a nurse.I still feel depressed about it all and mad at the same time.

I just started as a nurse on a medical floor, I was on orientation. I had a coreg to give and the heart rate was 52, there was no parameters entered by the physician so I went ahead and gave it. Unknown to me, my preceptor came up to me later and said I wasn't suppose to give that because his heart rate was too low. No one told me on the floor that 60 was their magical number that was too low to give for coreg. (I still have to look up their policy and procedure) I was taught in nursing school that if its below 50 the general rule is to hold it if there is no parameter on it. I looked it up in my Davids drug book and it says the same thing, to hold it if its under 50. Consequently I was fired this past Monday due to this error. What is everyone's thoughts?