As an LPN I make ethical and moral decisions every day. It is my job to give medications to
the patients at the nursing home that I work at. It is important for me to keep track of which
medications go to what patients and I also must make sure I give them the right amounts of the
meds at the right times. Even though I am comfortable with doing my job and try my best to
keep track of everything, sometimes the patients try to confuse me.
About a month ago I had to medicate a patient with multiple wounds. I had to give her diluted
morphine and Xanax prior to her dressing change. It takes about two hours for her medications to
kick in so I had to wait two hours after giving her the medications to do the dressing change.
After the two hours, another patient of mine had an emergency and I had to send that other …show more content…
I got back to the first patient’s room after about 4 hours. When I entered
her room, she said she was in pain and asked for another morphine before I do the dressing
change. I was not ordered to administer another morphine at that time and the order that I had for
that patient called for morphine to be administered every 8 hours. I knew that no matter what I
had to change her dressing and at the same time I did not want her to be in pain. I tried to explain
to the patient why I was not just able to give her the morphine as she requested but she got mad
and threatened to report me.
Right away I called the patient’s doctor to try and get a stat order but he did not pick up. Since
it was past the time for me to change her dressing I just decided to give her the morphine then I
did the dressing. Later, the doctor called me back and said don’t worry and that it was okay that I
gave her the
the patients at the nursing home that I work at. It is important for me to keep track of which
medications go to what patients and I also must make sure I give them the right amounts of the
meds at the right times. Even though I am comfortable with doing my job and try my best to
keep track of everything, sometimes the patients try to confuse me.
About a month ago I had to medicate a patient with multiple wounds. I had to give her diluted
morphine and Xanax prior to her dressing change. It takes about two hours for her medications to
kick in so I had to wait two hours after giving her the medications to do the dressing change.
After the two hours, another patient of mine had an emergency and I had to send that other …show more content…
I got back to the first patient’s room after about 4 hours. When I entered
her room, she said she was in pain and asked for another morphine before I do the dressing
change. I was not ordered to administer another morphine at that time and the order that I had for
that patient called for morphine to be administered every 8 hours. I knew that no matter what I
had to change her dressing and at the same time I did not want her to be in pain. I tried to explain
to the patient why I was not just able to give her the morphine as she requested but she got mad
and threatened to report me.
Right away I called the patient’s doctor to try and get a stat order but he did not pick up. Since
it was past the time for me to change her dressing I just decided to give her the morphine then I
did the dressing. Later, the doctor called me back and said don’t worry and that it was okay that I
gave her the