Administering medication to patients should be done carefully and must be in the specifications of the physician’s order. Improper administration of medication can cause harm to patients. The accusation of such negligence is common in nursing care. You just need a nurse attorney before dealing with such accusation cases.
At the time of the incident, she was employed as an RN at a medical facility in McKinney, Texas, and had been in that position for three (3) months.
On or about October 23, 2020, while employed as an RN at a medical facility in McKinney, Texas, the RN improperly administered 2 mg Dilaudid intravenously to a patient at 03:18 without a valid physician order. Subsequently, at approximately 04:00, the aforementioned patient was found unresponsive, a Code Blue was called, the patient was resuscitated and transferred to the Intensive Care Unit, where the patient was found to have an anoxic brain injury. RN’s conduct was likely to injure the patient in that failure to administer medications as ordered could have resulted in non-efficacious treatment and may have contributed to the patient’s anoxic brain injury.
In response, RN stated that the patient had a lot of pain and she administered the medication, Dilaudid 2 mg, which was indicated in the record that it could be supplied in case the patient presented with maximum pain. While performing wound care on the patient’s feet, the patient was oriented to time, person and space, and maintained a dialogue with the RN. RN stated that the code blue occurred approximately forty-five minutes later.
BON’s legal procedure and summons
Once the BON finalizes the process of a complaint, you’ll soon receive the summon asking for your response to the said complaint. By this time, you must search for a highly competent nurse lawyer who can present your defense argument to counter the complaint/s brought upon you.
Mr.Yong J. An, a Texas nurse attorney, is among the committed legal professionals who have been servicing the legal field for 16 years now and has supported more than 300 nurses in all sorts of medical-related lawsuits.