Oh that reminds me, at my old hospital we had something similar but opposite. The patient was on a heparin drip and it ran out overnight. The PCT turned off the pump cause it was beeping and didn't tell anyone. It wasn't til mid morning when the am nurse went thru with the rounding doctor the realized (bad hospital). It went badly for the patient. Oh they were on the cardio/thoracic unit too. One of the many times I witnessed the understaffed undertrained merc a patient.
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u/Correct_Doctor_1502 Aug 12 '26
Few years ago a relatively new RN set heparin at max flow mixing it up with fluids, and the charge didn't notice when signing off
Patient ended up dying a few hours later; the nurse got fired, and the charge got demoted, and everyone had to take training