Lorie Brown, Nurse Attorney, discusses problems that are the result of a Pyxis audit and how to protect your Nursing License. This includes how it may look like a nurse is diverting medications and making sure you are administering and wasting medication properly so you protect your license.
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Patricia Chaballa says
I was asked to help a colleague in a critical care unit to pull a narcotic from the Pyxis for her. She scanned and gave it. Months later I was called into the managers office saying the records showed me pulling the narcotic minutes AFTER the narcotic was scanned and acussed me of diversion. I could barely even remember the situation at the time. Later when I was talking to another nurse friend about this, she recommended having someone check the times on the Pyxis and the charting bedside computers. Sure enough…they were not synced. I was let go wrongly over this and another situation I could not explain as it too was months later.
I promise you I am not a diverter and I cannot tell you how horrible it was to be accused of such a thing and have no way to defend myself. I was not part of a union as I was on a travel contract at the time.
This climate of blame and defensiveness in our profession has ruined the comradery and trust we used to have for one another. I don’t want to be a Pollyanna , but all this has gone too far.
LORIE A BROWN, R.N., M.N., J.D. says
Thanks for your comment. Nurses need to understand this can happen to them even if they did not divert.