Archive for October 19th, 2008

Nursing - Numbers game

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

A patient in the ED was supposed to receive Phenergan VC with codeine syrup (promethazine, phenylephrine, and codeine) to take at home to relieve coughing. When a nurse located a bottle of generic promethazine with codeine syrup and a large “C” around a “V” on the label, she mistakenly thought she’d identified promethazine VC with codeine syrup. In fact, this syrup didn’t conta…