Nursing Reflection Paper

Description
Garcia (2006) had stated that nurses play the main role in ensuring and preventing medication errors. Researchers had reported that 38% of medication errors that take place in hospitals are serious and leads to mortality. Nurses being the majority number of healthcare provider had been found to be responsible for 26% to 38% of medication errors that takes place in hospital settings. In fact nurses’ vital role is ensuring that all patients would receive safe treatment (Kim, Kim & Yoon, 2016). The last person that checks on the medication before dispensing to the patients’ are nurses, thus if they had ensure correct prescription and dispensing, medication error can be prevented (Carolyn, Debra, Patricia & Tamara, 2015). However, in my incident the nurse who did the medication error had committed to a big mistake leading to mortality.

Feeling
Honestly I was really very angry with the nurse who had done the error and I was also angry with myself. The moment I got to know that, the reason why the patient arrested, I scolded and even raised my voice to the nurse involved. To be honest I was not able to control myself, my feelings, I can’t even descript what I was feeling at the very moment. There were so much of mixed feeling, angry, sad, scared and many more unwanted feelings. As a person in charge I could not believe that such incident could have happened under my supervision. I was even thinking that if only I have the authority, I would have terminated the