Day 427 - Pulm Appt & Nurse Messes Up Meds
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 Our day started out with our nurse giving James Sodium Chloride even though the order was to hold for one week and then get labs to evaluate. We are going for labs tomorrow. Mom tried explaining this to this nurse but it was very confusing to her. 🤦🏻♀️ The nurse just kept repeating herself saying, "we don't have an order to discontinue". No, not yet but the word "hold" means "refrain from". Well the nurse had already put the medicine into his feeding bag, so we had to dump the entire bag. We didn't know how much actually got to him, which could mess up his labs tomorrow. Of course none of this was charted in the nursing book. No apology, no ownership, just blaming the other nurse for "miscommunication". 😂 We had a pulmonology appointment in the afternoon. Originally they wanted to cancel this appointment because James was no longer getting synagis shots. Our insurance was only going to cover 5 injections, si...