Famotidine (Pepcid) is available injectable and used to prevent ulcers in the hospital. Not sure how she could confuse that with pancuronium. Not even close to the same names.
“The nurse said the package looked the same”.
Uvo Ologboride also seems to be a chairman of the ICARE Healthnetwork down in Florida from some google runs I did of his name. Other sources have him as male and from West Africa. Uvo’s name comes up a lot and I know there can’t be that many guys from Africa or Haiti named Uvo Ologboride based in Florida. One posting shows a certain Uvo Ologboride criticising Atheists for not believing in God on one forum. He could be Haitian, too I guess.
Political correctness allowing such a person to pay a fine and continue working as an RN? Something is really stinking here!
And I am an RN and my corporation takes a really dim view about such basic mistakes. Calculation errors can be trick to place blame on because a lot of times the Pharmacies mix the drugs and if mislabeling occurs, what’s the nurse to do?
Yet, such a basic rooky mistake such as not recognizing famotidine(pepcid) from Pancuronium will get you thrown out of nursing school and would get me fired! I’ve given Pancuronium as a process in in rapid intubation of patients. Heck their starting letters “f” and “p” are not even close to each other. Totally brainless! Or is something more darker at work...run some Googles on his name. A name like Uvo Ologboride can not be too common; yet there are lots of entries with his name!