Making mistakes

Remembering a clinical mistake from my day's as a nursing student in the 1970s, and how I learned from it for the future.

This is a recollection from when I was a nursing student in the 1970s. It’s the story of a drug error. Everyone dreads making this sort of mistake, and everyone dreads witnessing a mistake and having to deal with what happens next. This was a very early lesson for me, and I learnt some very useful lessons. Reflecting on these stories, even forty years…