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Visa Assessment E-Books Registration Jobs Wages Nursing Wages in NSW Nursing Wages in QLD Contact What Happens when Nurses make Medication Errors? Posted in: General Nursing Stuff|November 18, 201413 Comments That feeling you never want to experience - heart racing, dry mouth, tunnel vision as you look again at the vial in your hand and realisation kicks in - you've just pushed 5mg of Midazolam IV instead of Metoclopromide. Human error in any industry is unfortunately a fact of life. In the nursing profession these errors can be simple in nature and easy to fix, or they can be catastrophic and life threatening. Recent times have seen a bit of a shift in health care trends, with most employers encouraging reporting of events in order to analyse how and why the error occurred, and to minimise the chances of it happening again. With regards to medication safety, there are multiple check processes in effect to minimise the probability of a catastrophic medication error occuring. When administering medications, nurses are responsible for ensuring that the medication given and nursing actions will not harm the client, and accepts this responsibility as a condition of their registration. This means that you can not assume that the medication ordered (eg the dose or route) is correct for the patient - nurses should be familiar with usual doses of drugs, routes, therapeutic and side effects and correlation with blood results (eg, you wouldn't expect to be giving adenosine to a patient who needs atropine - the doctor may have written the wrong drug order). Consequences and disciplinary action against Nurses It has been suggested that if too harsh a decision is taken in cases of simple medication errors, other nurses will not report drug errors in future, leading to a situation where error reporting is almost non-existent in a world of cover-ups. If you find yourself in a situation where a medication error has occurred, the best course of action really is to take ownership of the mistake & make sure that no cover-ups occur, despite that initial moment of realisation/panic. There have been documented cases of cover-ups leading to further disciplinary action, for instance a doctor was banned from practising for 2 years when he falsified patient notes prior to a coronial enquiry in order to cover up negligence. Initial course