I AM SO EMBARRASSED!!!!! I discharged a patient yesterday and forgot to take the saline lock out of her arm before she went home. She was a wacky lady. She basically refused to go to the TCU because she was tired and wanted to go home. She had been in before (Feb 2nd) because she fell and broke her hip at home. Then she went home and came back in because she fell AGAIN at home and broke her humerus! She was supposed to go to TCU. So the Dr. didn't want her to go and said she could go AMA, but then another Dr came and said she could go home (general, not surgeon) Throughout the day we found 3 lovenox injections and correctol in her bedside table (I have no clue how it got found on her last day, she's been admitted for 2 weeks!) so I took it and put it in her med cassette. She already had a home med that was there that had been through pharmacy because pharmacy's label was on it. So she called me last night at 6:30, just before shift change. She said she just noticed that she still had the IV in her hand. I apologized, I felt AWFUL!!! She asked if she could come back in, I said yes, and she said she couldn't come till the next day. My preceptor told me to call her back and see if she wanted me to walk her through taking it out. She agreed to this, but apparently never did it. I got a call today from my supervisor saying that she called to say she was missing meds. Pharmacy has NO RECORD of the meds she is speaking of and the med was something I had never heard of but my supervisor said it was arthritis?? Then she mentioned the IV. She told me not to worry about that, but I feel AWFUL!!!!!! It's my 9th week of orientation, I am off next week. I feel awful.
Please tell me I am not the only one this has happened too, the IV thing. My supervisor is not worried about the meds.
