I was a frazzled new nurse on a busy, short staffed cardiac stepdown unit. Trying to save time, I pulled patient A and patient B's medication at the same time and put the meds in two different piles on my WOW. (I think you know
I was taking care of pretty sick/ unstable patient on the progressive care unit I work on. She had recently failed a swallow eval due to being hypercarbic and lethargic so she had a Dobhoff. She also happened to have a guillotine BKA which required
I started off as a new grad in the ICU and had gotten my first PCI patient. They didn't give the full thrombotic dose because they saw on her CT a small bleed. So I was doing Neuro checks and the doc told me if
The order was for 10u of humilin insulin subq in the ED. I gave 100u instead. I realized right away and went cold. Called a nurse to stay with patient, told Dr right away then Charge then back to pt and explained what happened to
I will never forget. I was a new grad and one of my coworkers was in the weeds. He asked me to give his patient some morphine. I can't remember if they were there for appendicitis or post op or what but she was an
