Nurses: Guilty verdict for dosing mistake could cost lives

Come on, nurses work exorbitant hours trying to do their job. Mistakes occur not like when Governor Cuomo put the elderly back in the nursing homes with covid. I don't want to go too much into my medical problems but I prefill my insulin syringes with two kinds of insulin indifferent syringes of course. One time I went into the wrong part of the refrigerator which I do not mark my insulin it's pretty much the same container, anyway I injected myself with the long lasting insulin versus the short acting. I've been doing this for about a year now and I just happened to grab the wrong insulin, a mistake. It didn't kill me, but I still made the mistake and grabbed the wrong insulin syringe. Mistakes happen nurses are not infallible neither doctors

This pisses me off. As a father of a nurse I can tell you that they are overworked and grossly underpaid for what they do. They put up with demanding and rude doctors, angry patients patients that don't do what they have asked them to do, and hospitals and clinics that will throw them under the bus every time they get a chance only to save their own skin. Doctors are with patients for only about 15 minutes a day unless surgery etc. The nurses are the ones that are with them the entire hospital stay. The mistake she made was wrong and she owned it from the beginning...never shied away from it and they are using that against her. Were there methods in place to prevent it, yes. By allowing nurses to use the override was that acceptable unless it was a two man review and check? NOPE. When dispensing medicatiio9ns especially after an override there needs to be a two step verification. At the worst she should only receive a loss of license. She should not warrant jail time for this. Vanderbilt has a lot of this on their shoulders as well but they will never admit to that...she was their scapegoat! We have rapist, drug dealers, DUI's that get less sentences than this possibility. Mistakes and accidents happen. “Best estimates are 7,000-10,000 fatal medication errors a year. Are we going to lock them up? Who is going to replace them?” said Bruce Lambert, patient safety expert and director of the Center for Communication and Health at Northwestern University.

But I hope to think I would be like the victims grandson, "Recently, while buying farm supplies, she was talking with the young man behind the counter when he recognized her, and told her he was Murphey’s grandson. Instead of reproaching her, he ended up comforting her and patting her on the shoulder, she said. “He was so kind. He was so incredibly kind,” Vaught said. “I took his grandma away, and he just kept telling me to take care of myself. There are good people in this world.”

I will tell you that a Doctor prescribed, a nurse put in, and the pharmacy filled a prescription for a antibiotic that I am highly allergic to. I didn't recognize the name as it was a generic and I took it...broke out in hives from head to foot. When I called the doctors back they panicked...I told them it was ok and that I took Benadryl and we just needed to get a different med. Mistakes happen. Only one person that has ever walked this earth was perfect and He died on a cross so that one day I can join Him...everyone else makes mistakes.

..."That verdict — and the fact that Vaught was charged at all — worries patient safety and nursing groups that have worked for years to move hospital culture away from cover-ups, blame and punishment, and toward the honest reporting of mistakes.

The move to a “Just Culture” seeks to improve safety by analyzing human errors and making systemic changes to prevent their recurrence. And that can’t happen if providers think they could go to prison, they say."...