Medication Errors Kendra Jenkins 07/23/2015 Keiser University Florida Abstract With the medication errors of nurses, what they are planning to do means a whole lot. Plenty of times, the media shows the negative sides of nurses and them giving medications wrongfully but almost ignoring the great work that they do over many years. For the most part, nurses are there to help in any way they can. They want their patients to be healthy and feel great again, but no one is perfect and accidents do happen. In any career or job, mistakes can happen. Look at the president; do you think that they did everything right in their various terms in office? Their mistakes can be very detrimental to the lives of tons of people, compare their losses of lives to the lives lost by the mistakes of nurses and that can definitely open your …show more content…
We all make mistakes even though we are forgiven or not. Some mistakes are meaningless and can be unnoticed. However, in nursing, mistakes can lead to someone being in pain, mental grief, or in very extreme cases, even death. But at the end of the day, we are still human and make mistakes. This doesn’t downplay the lives lost but it shows that if lives are at stake, any errors will be publicized dramatically. Understandably so, lives are important and we would always want to ry and limit those mistakes. George Santayana said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We always need to learn from our previous mistakes especially when lives are at stake. Kimberly Hiatt’s story is proof that even the toughest working nurse, possessing years of commitment, practice, and love for her work, can make a mistake disastrous not only to someone else’s life, but to her