Drug rehab is being made available for nurses. Miller says that giving medicine needs to be done continuously with great caution. When nurses give patients their specified medications, they must do so very carefully. First, they must make sure it is the right patient, second, they make sure it is the right drug, and third, they make sure it is the right dose. Nurses who work late into the morning hours cannot blame mistakes on lack of sleep.
Mistakes can mean someone's life.
Miller said that the patient's safety is always the most important. Certain duties of a nurse, such as giving a patient blood, or giving a patient narcotics, needs to be done with extra care because of the late hours one works. Nurses mainly deal with patients but along with patients come their families who sometimes need as much attention as the patient. They don't realize how much damage they could actually be doing. Pain control is a big issue on Miller's floor.