Paying for Meds that you dropped or vial broke??

1 One of the nurses in my hospital accidently dropped a Fentanyl injection ampoule and it broke. The Hospital is asking her to pay for it.

I wonder if any of you guys have heard of similar instances
Quote from asicitOne of the nurses in my hospital accidently dropped a Fentanyl injection ampoule and it broke. The Hospital is asking her to pay for it. I wonder if any of you guys have heard of similar instances

Moved to new thread.

Some states require that the damage be willful in order to make the employee pay for it.

That has got to be a record new low.

I've never heard of such a thing (in >25 years of nursing) ... In fact, I work in psych, and a few different employers have paid over the years to replace my glasses when they were broken by clients in the course of my doing my job.

Quote from asicitone of the nurses in my hospital accidently dropped a fentanyl injection ampoule and it broke. the hospital is asking her to pay for it. i wonder if any of you guys have heard of similar instances

Never heard of this and I have dropped / broke the vials of some real expensive meds.

I've been reading over NY's dept of labor and similar info the past week or two, and this is not allowed save for certain circumstances. Just have your friend read into your state's dept of labor / labor laws - very dry, but useful material.

Wow! I drop and break ampules all the time. I guess I should be more careful ....and more careful about steering the computer-on-wheels into walls and doorways, too. I would quit a job in a hurry if I were penalized for being clumsy.

That must be part of their employee appreciation and retention program. I'm sure that collecting from that nurse will totally be worth in terms of health care dollars recovered. This will probably solve the whole crisis! I'm definitely going to be more careful in the future! Just yesterday I broke a whole bunch of stuff on purpose just for the fun of it. I assume they have a process to investigate breakage to see if it was intentional or not. Something like an overhead page of a code "glass". This way a team could respond and assign blame for the breakage. Perhaps the med was improperly packaged, or the Pyxsis malfunctioned. That way no vial of fentanyl will go unbilled. I'm going to get myself some med breakage insurance. You have to be ******* kidding me!

I would call the states attorney general.......the are really not allowed to do this except in malicious intent.http://www.canmybossdothat.com/that is inclusive of harrassing and intimidating workers.

.....am wondering if this isn't the first vial of this med this nurse alledgedly broke??