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Damn being a nurse she could've at least known to use saline.
Hope she gets what she deserves
Most (good) hospitals have tracking on units of medications, even saline. She's have to "lose" the saline bag to use it, whereas tap water was easier to hide. I really don't like the way the article words this as "misuse of hospital supplies" rather than "attempted murder" or "gross medical malpractice" though. That seems a bit too squishy to me.
The nurse could have at least spent a dollar and used distilled water. Probably safer than tap.
I’m guessing she was either selling the fentanyl or using it. Either way not likely that she was thinking straight.
Saline inventory is not tracked. Saline bags for use as IV fluids are scanned and tracked because they are ordered by a doctor and considered equivalent with administering a medication. But we also use those bags all the time for things that aren't tracked like priming tubing for "piggyback" administration of something that is ordered with the nearly full bag thrown away at the end, never scanned or tracked. And saline flushes aren't tracked.
There's ample supply of saline that would never be missed in the quantities that would have been used here. There is zero reasoning for using tap water instead of saline.
I know right!! How dumb.
What a jumbled headline. It makes it sound like the patients should have died from fentanyl, but instead they died from tap water.