This is all a bit third party ( as usual on AB)
and it depends on the circumstances
I agree having had an admission, that one nurse does the night round and if you needed two nurses for everything, no one would get any of their drugs
BUT
morphine is usually checked by two ( and entered on the morphine register than requires two signatures)
Ivs and drips are checked - blood by at least two
Intensive care - as above
chemotherapy - two again
Sqad when he gave a drug would NOT check his drug with anyone
erm so it really depends on the circumstances....and the pt knows and we dont. I assisted someone who objected to the smell of a stitch abscess which she insisted was due to lack of - - - yup - anticoagulants. And at the meeting she was shown the prescription sheet and the signature of the nurse who had no doubt given the anticoagulant. The patient had forgotten - ( premed )
I have to say - injecting an anticoagulant into a DVT sounds a bit sporting .... everyone knows of anticoagulants being given where the course of the disease is NOT changed - but that is not due to wrong drug or wrong dose....
If they have done the wrong drug bit
they are now under a duty to tell the patient
( duty of candour )
so all you do is sit back and wait and the money pours in