0402lady

Earlier this week I was floated to an unfamiliar unit that I have never worked on before. Til around noon my shift had gone surprisingly smoothly until... I had a rather difficult admission arrive to the unit. The phlebotomist came to draw his labs but refused to completely draw his full list of labs because the doctor kept making orders and she would have to return to the patients room. So I was left with several lab orders. I made copies of all the patients labels and grabbed them from the machine. But as I did this I accidentally grabbed a label for a type and screen for a different patient. The blood was drawn and labeled at the bedside including the other patient's type and screen. About an hour later the nurse of the patient who the type and screen label belonged to kept receiving calls about the sample I sent. I realized my error immediately and called blood bank to make sure they were aware that the sample was improperly label and MUST be disregarded. Thankfully no patient was harmed during this incident. I just feel so guilty and shameful that I made such an error. I'm losing sleep over it and feel like I put a damper on my reputation.