Students injected with wrong item

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Specializes in School Nurse.

Wasn't a school nurse but some workers they brought in for the screening, but someone failed to read the vials and injected insulin rather than TB derivative

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/health/16-students-accident-indiana/index.html

Fortunately, the kids are OK, but this is basic stuff people!

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Specializes in kids.

Yikes!!

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Specializes in School nursing.

I'm confused as to why they would have brought insulin with them. Glad all the students are okay!

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Specializes in kids.

Grabbed the wrong stuff from their base refridgerator, that's my guess?

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Just now, NutmeggeRN said:

Grabbed the wrong stuff from their base refridgerator, that's my guess?

I'm guessing. Maybe a take away step will be to label their insulin with a giant safety label or say a brightly colored piece of tape. Yikes indeed, since it would seem not checking of the vial itself was done before administering even after the wrong vials were packed.

My take away is that since we are all human and I am going to triple check everything...

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I live close to where this happened. If sounds like these kids were part of a health sciences program (called C4 here, not sure what called elsewhere). Hopefully, this will remind these kids to ALWAYS do multiple checks on course of treatment prior to touching a patient!

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14 minutes ago, Hoosier_RN said:

I live close to where this happened. If sounds like these kids were part of a health sciences program (called C4 here, not sure what called elsewhere). Hopefully, this will remind these kids to ALWAYS do multiple checks on course of treatment prior to touching a patient!

I too hope the student of this program learned a valuable lesson, but I would think they had an instructor right? Wouldn't she be primarily responsible and expected to check what the students are giving? I know that's how it worked when I was in nursing school.

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Definitely a good lesson for the students. I don't think the students were the ones doing the injecting.

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10 hours ago, Feral.Cat.Herder said:

I too hope the student of this program learned a valuable lesson, but I would think they had an instructor right? Wouldn't she be primarily responsible and expected to check what the students are giving? I know that's how it worked when I was in nursing school.

They weren't getting a lesson, per se, they were getting TB tests to be able to complete clinicals, according to news sources. But I hope this teaches them that lesson. Sorry I wasn't clear on that

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11 hours ago, Hoosier_RN said:

They weren't getting a lesson, per se, they were getting TB tests to be able to complete clinicals, according to news sources. But I hope this teaches them that lesson. Sorry I wasn't clear on that

My bad, for some reason when I read the article I thought they were nursing students from the Technical Career Center.

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Specializes in School Nurse.

Of course, the diabetics won't fare well given TB derivative rather than their insulin, either.

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YOWSA. I get this. The nurse did not check the vial before injection (one of those pesky rights).

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