Medication Error

[Sansa@Stark]

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I am a medication assistant at an Assisted Living Home and the other day I accidentally gave the wrong medication to a resident. I had to write a report but no disciplinary action resulted from it. The patient had no negative health effects. Thank god, don't know how I could live with myself.

My question is that would I have to disclose this on my future medical school applications and if I do how much will it set me back.

Thank you in advance.

 

[AlteredScale]

I am a medication assistant at an Assisted Living Home and the other day I accidentally gave the wrong medication to a resident. I had to write a report but no disciplinary action resulted from it. The patient had no negative health effects. Thank god, don't know how I could live with myself.

My question is that would I have to disclose this on my future medical school applications and if I do how much will it set me back.

Thank you in advance.

IMHO, if there was no disciplinary/criminal action against you then I would NOT try and share this type of information on your medical school application.

Also, kitty says no as well so I would take his advice.

 

[FCMike11]

I am a medication assistant at an Assisted Living Home and the other day I accidentally gave the wrong medication to a resident. I had to write a report but no disciplinary action resulted from it. The patient had no negative health effects. Thank god, don't know how I could live with myself.

My question is that would I have to disclose this on my future medical school applications and if I do how much will it set me back.

Thank you in advance.

Absolutely not. I work in a hospital and incident reports happen. Most of the time nothing comes of it, if its serious and involving patient care you have a sit down and I've only seen one instance where someone was fired.

 

[Hospitalized]

Learn from it. We are humans. Every level of medicine makes mistakes at one point or another. You were responsible and reported it, which is the right thing to do.

 

[LizzyM]

"Institutional Actions" taken by your academic institution such as but not limited to suspensions and expulsions must be listed on your application. Most criminal convictions (I say most because it varies by state law which can be excluded) must be listed on your application.

An incident report in a health care facility does not have to be reported.

 

[Catalystik]

Learn from it. We are humans. Every level of medicine makes mistakes at one point or another. You were responsible and reported it, which is the right thing to do.

When faced with the ethical dilemma of reporting vs concealing a mistake, you did the right thing and let your supervisor know what happened. The culture of medical training encourages the approach of learning from mistakes vs one of "blaming." I agree that you don't have to report this, but if you did choose to bring it up, I doubt it would be viewed negatively, especially if you add what you learned from the situation and why it won't happen again.