I was sent over here from another forum to see if I could get some help and advice. I have a preemie in the NICU. He was born at 32 weeks gestation and is now 3 weeks old and 35 weeks, 2 days gestation. We are getting ready to be released and we were given the information on Hep B vaccination, which we had already verbally told them we were refusing. We were given a consent or refusal form with the information on the vaccination. At just before 9pm last night, as we were leaving for the night, I took the form out to the nurse, chose "refuse" on the form, and signed it. She then signed that she witnessed our refusal of the vaccination. An hour later, the same nurse administered the vaccination to him. We found out this morning.
I have already obtained a copy of the form both I and the nurse signed that clearly states that I refused the vaccination. We are working on getting a copy of his full medical records. The charge nurse came in and talked to us but basically tried to gloss it over with a "we all make mistakes" speech, which I'm not buying. You don't make mistakes like this in a hospital, that's how people die. The hospital's "risk management team" is supposed to be sending someone to talk to us sometime soon.
I am at a loss as to what our next step should be. I'm not the sue-happy sort so I'm not thinking lawyer up and trying to get money out of them, but I also do not want to gloss it over and let them think it's okay for their staff to make mistakes like this. I asked the charge nurse what was being done by the hospital to ensure this didn't happen again and I didn't really get a response. He just said he filed an incident report and they were looking into it. The nurse has already admitted she did it.
Any advice on what to do going forward would be greatly appreciated.
I have already obtained a copy of the form both I and the nurse signed that clearly states that I refused the vaccination. We are working on getting a copy of his full medical records. The charge nurse came in and talked to us but basically tried to gloss it over with a "we all make mistakes" speech, which I'm not buying. You don't make mistakes like this in a hospital, that's how people die. The hospital's "risk management team" is supposed to be sending someone to talk to us sometime soon.
I am at a loss as to what our next step should be. I'm not the sue-happy sort so I'm not thinking lawyer up and trying to get money out of them, but I also do not want to gloss it over and let them think it's okay for their staff to make mistakes like this. I asked the charge nurse what was being done by the hospital to ensure this didn't happen again and I didn't really get a response. He just said he filed an incident report and they were looking into it. The nurse has already admitted she did it.
Any advice on what to do going forward would be greatly appreciated.
and I would definitely keep a fire lit under them. Legally I'm not sure if there is anything you can do unless your baby has a reaction.
