Failing to reconcile prescribed medications for a patient can cause great harm not only to the patient but also to the nurses and physicians responsible for their care. Therefore, hiring a nurse attorney to defend your case when accused of such misconduct is essential.
Alleged Misconduct: Failure to Reconcile Prescribed Medications
At the time of the initial incident, she was employed as an RN with a home and community services provider in Amarillo, Texas, and had been in that position for three (3) years and eleven (11) months.
On or about March 1, 2021, through April 29, 2021, while employed as an RN with a home and community services provider in Amarillo, Texas, the RN failed to ensure prescribed medications were appropriately reconciled and available for a patient after direct care staff repeatedly documented in the electronic Medication Administration Record that the patient’s medications were not available in the home. Subsequently, the patient was without all prescribed medications for two (2) months, including those medications prescribed to treat hypertension. The patient was then transferred to the emergency room and diagnosed with a stroke.
RN’s conduct was likely to injure the patient in that failure to administer medications as ordered by the physician could have resulted in non-efficacious treatment of the patient’s hypertension and may have contributed to the patient suffering a stroke.
The RN provided her side of the story. She stated that she did not recall seeing any reports of missing medications. RN further stated she is externally sorry for what happened with the patient. She was at fault for not completing medication counts, and that she was overwhelmed with her workload.
The Texas Board of Nursing summoned the RN to defend her side but she failed to hire a Texas nurse attorney to help her build a strong defense. Hence, the board decided to place her RN license under disciplinary action.
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