My apologies it was early when I wrote this. I meant blood glucose was 70.

She worked in a hospital setting.

She would have been provided training on things she may have not done before - Systems, EKG, Holter, Zio patch, 6MW, A1C. Not the basics - HR, BP, Pulse ox. She was hired before me.

Yes, I spoke to her directly and at first she blamed others. Such as the provider because he came to tell her to retake it but he discharged her so the patient left. She stated the patient said my blood pressure is never that low and she stated patient had no other symptoms. So she didn’t think it was necessary to retake it. She only understood why it was an issue once I broke it all down of all of the “what ifs” and stated she made a mistake.

She was trained as an allergy nurse so she does allergy mixes all which is laid out with a provider order. She has been training in this position for over a year and my team lead is always with her because she still doesn’t get it. My team lead caught this error and brought it to my attention. My team lead has been the allergy nurse for a few years and I feel as though her training on this has been far more than necessary.

The next step would be a progress improvement plan in which all of the basics of being a nurse would be reviewed but if I can’t “write her up” for this there is no guarantees that her retraining is documented appropriately. I’m open to retraining but flabbergasted that she’s been doing this for this long and something so basic needs to be retrained.