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Nurse Gives Wrong Medication to Nursing Home Resident

By Levin & Perconti

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A civil claim was filed against a nursing home charging that one of its nurses negligently contributed to the death of a resident. The resident died about two days after he was given the wrong medication by a nurse at the facility. The nurse acknowledged her error, once she realized that she had given the wrong medication to the wrong patient. However, the facility would not comment on whether the nurse continues to be employed or whether any other legal actions alleging harm to its residents.

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Full post as published by Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).

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