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A former colleague of mine, a lovely woman I'll call Lauren, made an enormous and fatal medication error on her first night shift off of orientation. She gave 5 mg. of digoxin IV push-not 0.5 mg. She drew up and injected 10 vials of digoxin. She reco...
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Jessica's StoryJessica was a young, conscientious nurse in her first year of nursing. Jessica was having a typically busy day on Tele. One of her patients, a middle-aged male in Room 4152, was on a Pronestyl drip for arrhythmias. Pronestyl is an anti...
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Nationwide Children's Hospital, located in Columbus, Ohio is a nationally ranked pediatric care center which spans 68 facilities caring for the sickest children in the state. While they care for children, they also care for their staff. The Agency fo...
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Tragically, many people die from medical errors every year in hospitals. It's hard to know how many. "Medical error"is never listed as a cause of death on death certificates. But according to Johns Hopkins Hospital patient safety experts in a report ...
