mistakes

[Cju101]

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I know there have been many threads similar to this one, so please forgive me. If an intern makes a mistake and is written up, does that leave a bad mark on your intern liscense. I recenlty gave someone the wrong perscription. Actually they got theirs but someone elses was stuck to the back of one of the bags. I have no idea how I didn't see it. It was never scanned out and for some reason i never saw it. Its been bothering me so bad lately. I known mistakes happen but now Im so paranoid whenever Im at work. I don't plan on doing retail pharmacy after school but Id hate to get bad marks.🙁

 

[IrishRxMan]

If you haven't heard anything from your state board regarding the matter and your preceptor/pharmacy manager hasn't ripped you a new one, I wouldn't worry about it. Learn from the mistake and be more careful in the future. Erraro est humanum...to err is human.

 

[Cju101]

I didn't get yelled at really. the manager just took me aside and made me sign a incident report and it gets filed in corporate. I also beleive someone from corporate will be calling me to talk to me about the mistake. So I guess it sounds pretty bad. I just don't understand how it happened. Im always so paranoid of making a mistake and am so careful. I've been working there for almost and year and of course the last month im there I screw something up. thanks for listening to me vent.

 

[Bowler11]

Don't sweat too much. I made the same mistake, but it was as a tech. The whole corporate situation is required, but that is where it ended for me. I was so worried when it happened too so I know where you are coming from! Just relax and answer everything honest when you get your call. It will probably be dropped after the paperwork is made. Good Luck!

 

[YiYaoYue]

One thing I really love about pharmacy... just a simple corporate paper. I would hate to do malpractice court dates even for the possible mistake of the patient or a mistake due to incomplete symptom information from patient and would be killer if I made a mistake.

 

[Sparda29]

I made 2 major mistakes while I've worked at CVS. The first major mistake was a cashier related mistake where instead of placing the check in the drop box, I gave it back to the customer and put the receipt in the drop box. Came back next week and it turns out my drawer was short $80.

There was a huge stink raised about that.

The other major mistake was a pharmacy mistake and it did manage to get down to patient level. It was a doctor call, and the pharmacist took the call. The pharmacist didn't separate out the papers(instead of ripping each on off the pad individually, he gave me a stack of 3 papers).

I assumed that all belonged to the same person. Long story short, a male patient who just needed blood pressure medication ended up with fluconazole as well. The pharmacist just told me about it but that was it.

 

[mochiko]

One thing I really love about pharmacy... just a simple corporate paper.

Don't be naive... pharmacists can be sued for malpractice as well.

 

[YiYaoYue]

Don't be naive... pharmacists can be sued for malpractice as well.

But it doesn't happen as often correct? Also rarely due to the fault of the patient.

 

[laimyours]

They always have to file incident reports. I wouldn't worry too much about it, just see it as a learning experience. We all make mistakes, only ours are scarier because we are dealing with medication. I've heard of far worse happening, it all depends on how far the patient takes it. Honestly, if nothing happened to the patient then i'd say you're fine.

 

[IrishRxMan]

I didn't get yelled at really. the manager just took me aside and made me sign a incident report and it gets filed in corporate. I also beleive someone from corporate will be calling me to talk to me about the mistake. So I guess it sounds pretty bad. I just don't understand how it happened. Im always so paranoid of making a mistake and am so careful. I've been working there for almost and year and of course the last month im there I screw something up. thanks for listening to me vent.

This is basically getting talked to about the new cover sheets for the TPS reports. Didn't you get the memo?

 

[RobertZimmerman]

He was probably just having a case of the Mondays.