Reply #36: 2 nurses are supposed to check the drug given to infants

[rainbow4321]

before giving ANY DRUG, even Vitamins w/ iron in them (we had a baby given an overdose of iron, hence that new policy). Standard policy at most all places with babies. WTF happened???? It said a third patient also rec'd the wrong dose. Same nurse with three babies in her assignment, I wonder? My old facility used armband/medication scanning..wrong drug/patient and it beeps/won't scan, tells you're wrong.
If it wasn't at the nurse level then I would say someone in pharmacy mixed up the wrong dose and sent it to the unit. No way for a nurse to tell what the concentration is if the label has what it SUPPOSED to be in the syringe. Normally, though, the nurse draws it the heparin fresh from the heparin bottle at the bedisde. In this case, the WRONG heparin bottle (heparin comes in adult units (10,000) bottles and infant units (10).