Medication Errors!

This is what happens when nurses don't check their client's ID bracelets before administering a medication!

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Education

Tags:

• Nurse
• Medications
• Error

[miamisteryman]

that would be steve vai :) :)

[marnethunder]

Good msg!!!!Don't forget the 5 rights. Right dose, Right route, Right time, Right patient, and Right Documentation

[joikido]

check the ID bracelets!

[saviorJay51]

Hello..I'm a nurse from the San Diego County Sheriff Dept. This video was part of our training curriculum for skills day yesterday. We are all PHTLS ans AMLS certified nurses but we were amused but yet disturbed about this video. Can you imagine our top people from our chain of command watching this??

[missy424]

Ok Took a little heat for saying she should have reported the med error. I KNOW this is a skit and not real but I meant in REAL life if she had reported it as soon as she found out they would have given protamine sulfate and all would have been well. and No I am not in admin I am an LPN going for the ADN so I know a little bit.

[collieh1]

PROTAMINE SULFATE STAT!!!!

[dbrooks12009]

Some years ago when I was working as a med nurse on a unit, a head nurse came to me from administration and said that she noticed I checked a patients new med three times before I gave it to them to make sure it was right. She seemed surprised, but all I could think was, "Isn't that what you would want a nurse to do before giving you a new medication?" All meds should be checked atleast once. So, do the five rights "every" single time you pass meds. If you don't have the time, "make" the time.

[dbrooks12009]

Let me tell you all, med errors do happen every day. Nurses are stressed beyond limit. As nurses we have to try and tune out as many stressors as we can, even though all can't be. Lots of distractions occur during medication admistration and taking of med orders. Sometimes people will consider you rude when you have to put them on hold for less urgent matters.  But sometimes you have to so that you can be 100% sure that your orders are right and the five rights have been checked.

[fightingforjustice10]

Medical errors do happen more than people realize.

These errors need to be exposed , therefore hopfully they won,t be repeated.

People can die from mistakes.

If the medical proffessionals are reported, they will be more careful.

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[rickbar123]

@missy424 Shut up. "Report All Med Errors". Your so full of shit, you must be in Admin. Keep your mouth shut.

[jessthealbo]

@marnethunder

added now

Right Drug, Right to refuse. :) 7 rights.

[lesorciercalifornien]

@cthorste She couldn't hear it because her ears were still ringing from the electric guitar version of Beethoven's 5th.

[1caninelover]

Of course the ID & 5 rights (now 7 rights) are a must but medication errors are inflated to a zillion due to the 'right time'...if one patient goes into cardiac arrest and another receives their Tylenol an hour late that is included in the 'med error stats'

Triage dictates that you call a code on the arrest patient & give the other their Tylenol late thus a ton of the statistics are a....LATE MEDICATION; this just doesn't make headlines.