Wrong document being scanned in to the wrong chart
Hi! I just want to post my mistake and see if anyone has advice. I can’t stop thinking about it because I’m afraid of the consequences. So I had a transfer to my floor today, about 2 hours before the end of my shift and I had to put her on a tele monitor, which I did and I hooked her up the nurses station monitor screen. I have no idea how this happened or how it’s even possible but the tele boxes of my new patient and my other patient were switched or something like that. Long story short, I ended up thinking that I was printing the tele strip for my new patient and I was, but it printed out with my other patients name on top of it. I know I should’ve triple checked the name on the tele strip but I set it up so I thought it was perfectly fine. I put it in the scan box to be scanned into the system and it gets scanned in. It goes unnoticed until the end of my shift when the next nurse coming on figures it out. Once she figured it out, I looked into my new patients chart and realized that she didn’t have a tele strip scanned and that her tele strip ended up in the other patients chart with the other patients name on it. I was so upset and embarrassed. I talked to the charge nurse and another nurse and they said that they will have to contact someone to take it out of that patients chart and that I shouldn’t stress over it because they were both NSR and there were no medications given for cardiac (for ex. Someone could’ve been in vtach). The resource nurse told me that she would page the team and let them know and that I could go home because sometimes they take a long time to get back to us if non emergent. I’m going back tomorrow and Im gonna go to that floor and see if anything happened (I’m a float nurse, even worse). Does anyone have any advice? Can I get in serious trouble? I’m just afraid of being fired as a new nurse ??
Hi! I just want to post my mistake and see if anyone has advice. I can’t stop thinking about it because I’m afraid of the consequences. So I had a transfer to my floor today, about 2 hours before the end of my shift and I had to put her on a tele monitor, which I did and I hooked her up the nurses station monitor screen. I have no idea how this happened or how it’s even possible but the tele boxes of my new patient and my other patient were switched or something like that. Long story short, I ended up thinking that I was printing the tele strip for my new patient and I was, but it printed out with my other patients name on top of it. I know I should’ve triple checked the name on the tele strip but I set it up so I thought it was perfectly fine. I put it in the scan box to be scanned into the system and it gets scanned in. It goes unnoticed until the end of my shift when the next nurse coming on figures it out. Once she figured it out, I looked into my new patients chart and realized that she didn’t have a tele strip scanned and that her tele strip ended up in the other patients chart with the other patients name on it. I was so upset and embarrassed. I talked to the charge nurse and another nurse and they said that they will have to contact someone to take it out of that patients chart and that I shouldn’t stress over it because they were both NSR and there were no medications given for cardiac (for ex. Someone could’ve been in vtach). The resource nurse told me that she would page the team and let them know and that I could go home because sometimes they take a long time to get back to us if non emergent. I’m going back tomorrow and Im gonna go to that floor and see if anything happened (I’m a float nurse, even worse). Does anyone have any advice? Can I get in serious trouble? I’m just afraid of being fired as a new nurse ??