Skeeter19910

A pediatric patient was admitted to the unit whose mother has not made very many nurse friends.The mother's name was Googled and on an official government public information site, it was discovered that mom has 2 cases of assault with bodily injury that she is on probation for and 1 case of theft she is on probation for. My concern is that I could be fired for a HIPAA violation (even though just her name was googled) if I report these findings to a hospital social worker? However, I feel that if someone does not report something,this innocent being could go to home an extremely volatile, potentially life threatening environment Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!

The last night I worked I had an order for mylicon 0.4 mg Q 6hrs.So I did my chart check the order on the computer mar was correct, so I gave the dose.I had some downtime and was thumbing through the chart and noticed that the dates on the orders were out of order and that a new order for mylicon had been written 3 days earlier for 0.5mg Q 6hrs.Nobody had faxed the order or tagged it.I alerted the charge nurse but she said it was a simple error,no harm? There was no harm to the patient,and multiple nurses gave doses of the "old order".Was this technically a med error?Should I have gone higher than the charge? Thanks for the advice!