It has been observed that inadequate knowledge of patients on the use of pain scales could result in errors in pain assessment and this can lead to detrimental effects such as administering wrong doses of analgesics [ 23].
4 Nurses have cited interruptions and distractions as a top cause of errors during medication administration, 5 and such interruptions are significantly associated with a variety of medication administration errors (eg, administering wrong medication, dose, infusion rate).
What should we do when a hospital patient is killed by a nurse who administers the wrong drug in a patient's intravenous line?
Angry about the revelation that Percy (who later aplogized saying that they can be friends outside the hospital, but not inside) was using her, Stevens accidentally administers the wrong dialysis to a patient, making her an unviable candidate for the kidney transplant she was scheduled to receive.
Many parents tend to administer the wrong dose of the agents and/or administer them at incorrect dosing intervals [ 28, 29].
Thus a doctor might administer the wrong medicine to a number of patients, each of whom could bring a legal action.
She said she could not say whether there was any suspicion that Mr. Cullen was administering the wrong drugs, or in the wrong amounts, or that any mistiming of medications indicated an attempt to avoid scrutiny.
The legal filing also accuses clinic workers of failing to monitor Mr. Skori's condition, of lacking the proper resuscitation equipment, of administering the wrong medication and of generally providing "incompetent, unskillful and improper treatment".
Owen Hargreaves has claimed Manchester United put his career on the line by administering the wrong treatment for his chronic injury problems and making a series of mistakes that left him fearing he may never play football again.
But, equally, there is the sense of a man who is clear in his mind that the medical staff at Old Trafford administered the wrong treatment for his knee problems and put his career on the line just at the point when he should have been at the peak of his profession.
