There are several mistakes in this picture. I found 7 of them. Use your assessment and observational skills to see if you can find them, too.
The mistakes I found, not necessarily in order of importance, are the following:
1. The nurse is not wearing gloves. Every good nurse knows that you should wear gloves when administrating IV medications. Just remember to take them off before you use the computer keyboard.
2. The IV tubing has fallen on the floor -- this opens the door for infection from those nasty little microbes that keep the ID doctors in practice.
3. This is a bag of Normal Saline -- the doctor specifically ordered D5NS, or something with a "D", a slanted squiggle and an "S" or a "5" in it.
4. This is the wrong tubing. It won't fit the new "wonderpump".
5. She's lost her patient. He took off running when he saw the IV needle, even though he has a Harley Davidson tattoo on his left arm and one that says "Bad to the Bone" on the other.
6. The nurse has on green shoes -- completely out of uniform, and besides, they don't match her lovely surgical scrub mu mu.
7. She answered her phone when the supervisor called to ask her to come in and help out on her night off. Now she is tripled up with 2 vents -- both on contact precautions, and a geri-psych who has sundowners and no Haldol on his med profile.
Let me know if you find more mistakes than these.
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