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Posted on 03/28/2022 4:24:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
What she did was worse than what the Police did when georgy Floyd died. If you can’t read the label, get glasses. Be VERY VERY careful when administering meds. She wasn’t, someone died. Why shouldn’t she get some jail time?
Howzabout you hire her to look after your dementia-stricken parent or Downs Syndrome child.
Code of Hammurabi territory here.
I’ve read that more people are killed by medical mistakes than any other cause. A medical accident is no accident. Like the man said. Buy Glasses.
Medical mistakes are definitely in the top three causes of death/illness, IMHO. I do have some experience in this.
These are the same people who demanded police lock people up glfor covid.
Its far more complicated than this.
She was floating in an unfamiliar area. she had a student assigned to her (distracting). When given the order to use the machine to dispense the medicine
Sorry, partial post. Continuing. When given the order, she went to use one of the machines, it didnt work. Went to a superior who told her that yeah, the machines not working is a known thing, try a different one. The patient is in the ER, so the time pressure is building up. Went to a different machine, that one didn’t work. Asked a superior, was told to over-ride the error which allowed her to use a shorter keyword to get the wrong machine. After she gave the med, she was called out to a different area. She asked the radiology department to have someone monitor the patient, but was told the patient would be OK, no go to where you’re told. Patient was left unmonitored and died.
So yes, ultimately she gave the wrong medicine, but it was a series of events in a well meaning person, in which a series of errors including the machines at the hospital and other staff’s attitudes has some culpability as well.
Can read quite well, thanks. Bad medical outcomes occur through different, and often multiple, missteps, and often by multiple individuals. Civil liability is one thing, and criminal prosecution is entirely another. Unless you’re talking about “Angel of Death” psychopaths who deliberately administer lethal medications, criminal prosecution is a good way to end up with no physician or nurse to take care of you in your old age.
Wouldn’t the pharmacy hold some responsibility for dispensing the wrong medication? I am not sure but wouldn’t the first step be verifying the right medication is given out for correct patient?
Never mind. I just read the medication was dispensed from a electronic medication cabinet. I would not be shocked to discover such cabinets have lead to other such errors. All nicely swept under a rug.
Thanks for the explanation.
People who want to criminalize this kind of accident are clueless about the inherent weakness of humans. Humans are not flawless machines. We have malpractice laws and lawsuits for errors and omissions… Much of the progress that has been made in improving patient safety has come because of non-punitive approaches to error identification and reporting. An entire science has developed around improving patient safety by honest, competent professionals. Perfect clinicians do not exist, no matter how much we want them to be 100% perfect and eternally flawless. Patient safety will be worsened by criminalizing accidents in this manner.
Well, I suspect you know the maxim, “Doctors bury their mistakes”, is hardly a novel truism.
I would not be shocked to discover such cabinets have lead to other such errors.
Even worse was the infamous Therac 25.
https://tildesites.bowdoin.edu/~allen/courses/cs260/readings/therac.pdf
There already is a culture of silence about medical mistakes. This nurse should never have been convicted.
Vecuronium or Versed? Rocuronium or Rocephin? A reading problem by people taught to read using modern methods instead of phonics?
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