Oh, and here's a pic per your stated need in the first post... I figured this one is appropriate for a story like this.
Posted on 10/29/2012 10:15:22 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
A student nurse who mistakenly injected coffee into the veins of an 80-year-old patient who died hours later has defended herself by saying "anyone can get confused."
Rejane Moreira Telles, 23, said she had just three days of work experience in the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, clinic when she mixed up administering a drip to Palmerina Pires Ribeiro.
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But she added: "As they [the feed and blood drips] were next to each other, anyone can get confused. I injected the coffee and I put it in the wrong place."
Telles, who has been indicted for involuntary manslaughter alongside two nurses and another student, also revealed they had not been trained for that kind of procedure.
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Doctors contacted by TV Globo's Fantastico said that the milky coffee would have gone directly to the patient’s heart and lungs.
Dr. Armando Carreir, a nutritional specialist at the Federal University of Fluminens' Hospital Antonio Pedro, said 'It would have been as if the patient was suffocating.'
The victim's daughter, Loreni Ribeiro, said “I saw my mother was agitated. She opened her mouth, and this youngster put coffee with milk into (her) veins.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
You’ll get the answers to those questions when 0bamacare is fully implemented.
Sounds like somebody Obama could pick up pretty cheap for Obamacare duty.
Did the nurse major in Nursing’ or Barista?
Stupidity!
And just think if O is reelected this is the kind of training that Ocare will insure that our nursing students get.......
Ganked, w/thanks.
Hey! Happens all the time! Like she said, Anyone can make a mistake. They call her Nurse Maxwell..Good til the Last Drip.
More info here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2221924/Rejane-Moreira-Telles-Nurse-injected-80-year-old-woman-coffee-killing-says-confused.html
no into the veins. food had to go into the stomach.
I indict the physician or nurse who should have been supervising the treatment.
They did too.
does the NY daily news get its wire feed from slow-drip Brazilian grocery store tabloids?
What, no sugar?
Obviously this nurse was grossly negligent. Having said that this should not even be possible. The hospital obviously has larger problems if it is even possible for this to happen.
I teach error proofing and I think this will become part of my lecture.
No one was supervising a student with three days on-the-job experience?
FWIW, I’m a pharmacy student, and I’ve never heard about anything like this happening. I suspect that Nursie had to bypass multiple physical safeties to make this happen.
Apparently not.
I have to ask why is coffee even in a drip bag?
I hope that is the case.
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