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Article: Don't let these terrible outcomes with IV pain meds happen on your watch.
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- ED Nursing
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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Don't let these terrible outcomes with IV pain meds happen on your watch
ED nurses failed to monitor their patients
A patient involved in a motor vehicle accident suffers irreversible brain damage -- not from his injuries, but from an overdose of pain medication. In this case, "the ED nurse did not chart the administration of the medication, nor did she document a change in the patient's level of consciousness," says Teri J. Cox, RN, MS, CLNC, president and owner of Point Pleasant, NJ-based TCK Consulting, a legal nurse consulting firm. Cox is former ...