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This could have happened to any acute care nurse.

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CWS RN said:

This could have happened to any acute care nurse.

Have you read the TBI report? 

Only an egregiously incompetent and careless nurse could possibly have done what she did. 

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Wuzzie said:

Have you read the TBI report? 

Only an egregiously incompetent and careless nurse could possibly have done what she did. 

Yes. 

How many pyxis overrides do we do and save lives?

This could happen to anyone. 

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CWS RN said:

How many pyxis overrides do we do and save lives?

Do you look at the medication vial prior to drawing it up and slamming into a patient?

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Wuzzie said:

Do you look at the medication vial prior to drawing it up and slamming into a patient?

I never slam drugs into a patient. 

However, despite looking,  an error can be made.

Every nurse has had a drug error.  period.

This one was lethal.

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CWS RN said:

Every nurse has had a drug error.  period.

This wasn't a drug error. This was a series of incompetent actions by an incompetent nurse that resulted in a patient suffocating to death. 

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CWS RN said:

Absolutely.  She was deeply remorseful. 

Why?

I used the word 'repulsive' even though it's harsh because it accurately describes the visceral feeling I get when I think about what she's doing.

She may or may not have anything of value to tell other nurses. Personally, I think not.

I don't want to debate it because everyone is entitled to their own thoughts on the matter. This is just my personal reaction, and thanks for asking.

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dsaprog said:

The widow of the man he struck and killed is trying to sue wrongful death.

Does that seem wrong to you? Not speaking in strictly legal terms here, but do you think that getting KILLED because of a mistake like that is not a wrongful death? ("Ooops, guess that was the gas pedal!")

 

dsaprog said:

Because most people, not only nurses, make silly mistakes that have tragic consequences.

What kind of malarkey is that, LOL?! Who have you killed? Because I'm pretty sure I haven't killed anyone and I don't personally know anyone who has killed anyone by running them over with a car OR mistakenly injecting them with a paralytic and walking away or any other so-called silly mistakes for that matter. And before you point it out, I realize that you didn't say "....make silly mistakes that kill people," you said, "make silly mistakes that have tragic consequences." But it just so happens that the "tragic consequences" we're talking about = killing someone.

Wait....I just realized I just replied to another post of yours about the pain medication and the patient hurting your feelings. I'm so confused about what you find bothersome/a big deal now.

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CWS RN said:

This could have happened to any acute care nurse.

I ALWAYS look at the medication when I pull it out of the Pyxis. EVERY SINGLE TIME. It was drilled into me in nursing school and I've never deviated from that. It's now muscle memory. Do you not?

So, NO. This couldn't happen to any nurse. 

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CWS RN said:

This could have happened to any acute care nurse.

Having been in a similar situation I have to disagree. I worked at a facility where the patients of one particular Dr were screaming in pain and fainting during interventional radiology procedures. Said Dr called the nursing supervisor and demanded that RN's from my unit pull versed and go to IR and give it to the patients to help calm them down.....

Myself and the other RNs who were instructed by the DON and our own NUM to do this said NO! No we will not give IV sedation to pt's we haven't assessed, No we can't give IV sedation to a pt and then just leave. We also pointed out if they wanted to do this they would need monitoring equipment, suction and a crash cart available just like is required for the procedural sedation we were routinely doing in our own department. 

We were called "lazy" and "difficult" and received many threats for our insubordination and "ridiculous refusals" and the answer stayed a firm NO. So I can confidently say this would not happen to me, as I have no trouble recognizing this was grossly unsafe practise. 

 

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klone said:

I ALWAYS look at the medication when I pull it out of the Pyxis. EVERY SINGLE TIME. It was drilled into me in nursing school and I've never deviated from that. It's now muscle memory. Do you not?

So, NO. This couldn't happen to any nurse. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9720757/

 

The Swiss cheese model. Exactly right.

Humans make mistakes. 

All of us.

This was catastrophic. 

She was negligent.  No doubt.

However,  I've made plenty of mistakes.  Many I'm aware of, and certainly many that I'm unaware of.

This case was about ONE single individual. 

It should fall heavily on the hospital also.

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CWS RN said:

However,  I've made plenty of mistakes.  Many I'm aware of, and certainly many that I'm unaware of.

We've all  made mistakes, for sure, and nobody is denying that. If what she had done was made a mistake maybe the responses would be less visceral. Unfortunately she didn't make a mistake. She made multiple poor decisions that rose to the level of utter incompetency....and she knew better. Vanderbilt's actions, after the fact, were reprehensible but did not in any way contribute to the death of Charlene Murphey. 

 

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