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I agree that you should not be responsible for two orientees at once. This is not fair to you or the orientees. As far as being "written up", does that mean corrective action of some kind or is it a report of the incident in an effort to analyze the breakdown in the process? I work in a hospital and we have a process for reporting medication errors that is not intended to be punitive, but to look at what could have been done differently. I do not believe that you should be punished in any way for the error that occurred, however I can understand mandatory reporting of medication errors in an effort to improve the process. I have filed an incident report or two on my own medication errors and have never been punished. I have, however (as a staff RN), been at the center of a policy change due to a medication error I made, which entailed sitting around a conference table full of administrators and management while we discussed how the error could have been prevented and what we were going to do differently. Good luck to you and I am glad your patient did not suffer any negative outcomes.