Nurse gives relaxing injection to patient. Accidentally injects execution drug.

[AK'z]

the hospital should be liable, it is a multiple fuck up on its behalf.

why can a nurse get hold of a drug with no prescription? if they are qualified to prescribe, why would they be prescribing this deadly lethal drug?

nobody along the way picks this up?

here, you have at least 3 senior people encountering a prescription before anything gets approved and if it's wrong then all parties have to go to court.

[Headhumpy]

The nurse also failed to do their job by not monitoring the patient during and after administration of the drug.

[Big D Duchovny]

I wrote up a post pretty much like this, but didn't post it because tbh I live in Denmark, and nurses, what they're allowed to do etc. isn't the same everywhere. Anyway, that's what I meant by "unhealthy culture" - if nurses are using an "override" (I'm guessing this feature is meant for emergencies where the doctor might have their hands full and can't fill out a prescription or something - at least that's the only thing that would make sense to me) to save time, it's obviously an issue the hospital should be held accountable for.

Here in Denmark - as far as I know - there's no way a nurse would be able to order medicine without a doctor prescribing it first (some exceptions for OTC apply), so I'm just speculating here.

[Zonesylvania]

they forbid you from prescribing drugs using brand names here for this specific reason, if you use brand names and mess up you're basically held liable for the consequences, generic names only and the prescription has to have the drugs' generic name in capital letters.

[Geel]

I've heard that drowning isn't actually very painful after the initial shock.

Hopefully the same applies here.