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  1. On certain weekends during college I would spend the entirety of the time that the library was open studying; I would get there at 9am and not leave until 11pm, and still I thought this wasn't enough, especially if I had an exam that week. I got good...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. I couldn't breathe. My chest was aching with a fierceness that made me want to pass out. There was a pounding echoing in my ears so loud that I could hear my heart coupled with irregular breathing. Where did I screw up?! Inside my head I could hear m...
  5. 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...
  6. Nurse Beth

    How to Not Die in the Hospital

    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 ...
  7. I'm Going to Jail for Sure!

    One busy morning, each room in our ward was full, so we were really running. I had 2 women in one of my rooms both in their 50's or early 60's. I was at the med cart carefully double and triple checking each pill while making sure I knew what they we...