Patient’s death may lead to fewer hours for nurses
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, January 5, 2007
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Later this month, the Wisconsin Nursing Coalition will meet to discuss a possible limit on the hours that nurses are permitted to work. The issue of fatigue and medical errors will be at the forefront of the conversation in the wake of a patient death from a medical error at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison in July.
The nurse, Julie Thao, was charged with a felony, sentenced to three years of probation, and had her license suspended for nine months because of the medication error. Thao had worked two consecutive eight-hour shifts and was back at the hospital at 7 a.m. on the day of the patient's death.
No rules or regulations exist in the state about how many hours nurses can work each week.
Sources: Channel3000.com and The Capital (WI) Times
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