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Nurse Commits Suicide After Medication Error
Starting off this week’s episode is about an article from an anonymous blogger on a nurse named Kimberly Hiatt, a practicing nurse for 27 years, who made a medication error and unfortunately contributed to the child’s death. She was then fired from her job, sanctioned by the board of nursing and ultimately committed suicide from all the stress she was going through.
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This week the podmedic does an interview segment from the NTI conference at Chicago joined by public health nurse consultant and co-host Anne Robinson, critical care nurse Anna Dermenchyan from UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center and part-time nurse educator at Mt. Saint Mary’s School of Nursing, and Dorrie Fontaine past AACN president and dean of University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
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1 in 3 People to Encounter A Mistake During Hospital Stays
The discussion starts off with a research about how mistakes are common in US hospitals. Anne’s thought of this was whether the data has actually been better collected or if health professionals are just making more errors now as compared to the past. Terri brought up some points in the article where MRSA was called a medical error which is not usually the case. Another thing is the cut made by Medicare on the medication time as compared before when nurses are given a grace period of one hour before or from the time the medication is scheduled.
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The show starts off with a brief introduction of the panelists on this week’s show. First on the panel is Terri Schmitt from nursestory.com who brought on some of her students to as panelists in this discussion. Next up was Teresa Herrin, a nurse who started off as a microbiologist then continued into a nursing career in 1994 with an ADN. Since 1996, Teresa has worked as an RN up until 2 years ago when her position required a higher degree of nursing education. Now at 56, she is currently pursuing to get her BSN degree. Finally, Kurt Harter, also one of Terri’s students, has been working at a single health care institution for 25 years.
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Susan Sullivan, secretary of the National Nursing Network Organization, started off by providing a brief history as to how the idea of having a national nurse came about as well as the movements that have been done to push it forward into implementation.
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Host Jamie Davis was joined on this week’s show by Paul Kapsar and Lori Shaunley. In the first article, the panelists share their opinions on the new study that came out which looked at the critical role of nurses in helping patients and their families deal with ethical issues involving care.
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Host Jamie Davis was joined on this week’s show by Kim McAllister of the Emergiblog and Terri Schmitt from NurseStory.com.
In the first article, the panelists share their take on an article about a nurse who accidentally infused 50 milliliters of Potassium Chloride in 30 minutes instead of over 5 hours, overdosing the patient by ten times the appropriate dose leading to the patient’s death. Kim went ahead by saying that nurses are only humans and that errors are unavoidable.
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Host Jamie Davis was joined on this week’s show by Terri Pollick from Nurse Ratched’s Place and Nurse Practitioner from Nevada, Paul Kapsar .
In the first article, Paul Kaspar responds to last episode’s discussion on electronic health records including the cost and ease of use associated with it. He introduced Practice Fusion, a site that provides free electronic health recording that can be customized according to the user’s needs. A patient can fill in a form in the site and this would serve as the electronic record. It costs a minimal amount to maintain and also time-saving.
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (39.4MB) Welcome to Insight in Nursing Episode 28 Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care Host Jamie Davis was joined on this week’s show by Terri Pollick from Nurse Ratched’s Place and Terri Schmitt from NurseStory.com. In the first article, they talk about nurse practitioners and where they stand in the primary [...]
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