Wrong injection!

Are you not required to scan the patients identification bracelet and the med (or in your case vaccine) to be given?

Are you not required to scan the patients identification bracelet and the med (or in your case vaccine) to be given?

If this person is in a setting such as a provider's office; then scanning usually doesn't happen.

As the title says, I administered a wrong injection! After going through the initial shock stages, crying, shaming myself, and all other negativity emotional primal reactions, I am now seeking rational answers

The case: I administered a T-DAP, not a TD. The order was for a TD. I accidentally gave a TDAP

Health professionals I ask you this: Is there that much of a difference in the two vaccines? I mean technically didnt the patient get "Extra" vaccines (pertussis, diphtheria ON TOP of tetorifice)? So the pt needed TD- tetorifice, but instead got more for his buck so to say: the tetorifice, diptheria AND pertussis.

What harm could be done??

I am going to presume that this is days, if not weeks past the event.

The gravest harm would have already happened: Immediate profound Anaphylactic Shock and death.

Based on your post(s), apparently, that was not the case.

What have you found out in YOUR research? Surely you've done quite a bit of personal discovery on this. Why don't you share what you have learned?

I get the impression that this happened in a clinic setting. Even so, scanning said bracelet doesn't physically stop a person from injecting the wrong med.

Are you not required to scan the patients identification bracelet and the med (or in your case vaccine) to be given?

If you scan a patient and scan a wrong Mrs the computer will say so, if you still chose to give the med well then we have a problem

If you scan a patient and scan a wrong Mrs the computer will say so, if you still chose to give the med well then we have a problem

I hate autocorrect. Lol.

If you scan a patient and scan a wrong Mrs the computer will say so, if you still chose to give the med well then we have a problem

Meds can get discontinued and still be scannable; happened to me the other day I worked; thank goodness I cancelled and then saw the d/c order.

BCMA is not always foolproof.

My feelings exactly Pasdequoi. Bravo!