Topics About 'Medication Error'.

Hi everyone! Here goes nothing. I feel if I write on here and share my story I’ll be able to help someone else as well as feel a little better. I just started working in the ICU in April (was on med surg for about 10 months before). I’ve...

So, here is the situation. I started a DuoNeb treatment on my patient WITH my professor/instructor. Once the treatment was started we left the room and documented the treatment. I checked in on patient about 7 minutes and and everything was fine. ...

Nurse Beth: Hi I have a question regarding a situation happened to me recently. I work in PACU as a staff nurse and I do phase I and II. I have only 3 months in this facility. I discharged a patient home after a procedure, this patient is taking at h...

So yesterday I made my first medication error with vancomycin. I had two vials of antibiotics and one was meant to be IV push and the other was meant to hang via infusion. I mixed up both antibiotics and accidentally gave vancomycin IV push. I instan...

Unless you've been living under a rock. You know all about RaDonda Vaught, the Tennessee Nurse who made a terrible and tragic fatal medication error. I won't go over all the details of the case here since there have already been multiple articles in ...

The ProblemDear Mr. Thornton, I’m writing in response to the specific questions from your email this morning. A full investigation of the tragic event in our Faster Care area is in progress. You will have access to the complete report by tomorrow af...

Hi guys, I made my first med error yesterday and feel terrible. I work on a combined OB floor and had a patient who had elevated AST and ALT (75 and 52) . The doctor had Tylenol and Motrin ordered for pain control after her c-section, and so I gave b...

To read Part 1 of the story, go to Epinephrine Error - Broken Heart Syndrome, Part 1 How did you feel when you got the accidental IV push epinephrine?“The effects were instant. I thought I was going to die–people say that all the time, but I really d...

I sat down with Margo in her dining room one evening to talk about a medication error she made when she was a new nurse. I asked Margo to tell me a bit about herself. She hadn't always wanted to be a nurse. She was studying entomology (bugs) at NC St...