A nurse was unable to find insulin pen needles for administe…
A nurse was unable to find insulin pen needles for administering an insulin pen in a hospital setting. Instead, the nurse accessed the insulin pen cartridge with a U-100 insulin syringe to withdraw the dose, as she had commonly done in a previous job. This is considered an unsafe practice and is against the hospital’s policy. Is the nurse’s action a rule-based mistake, a violation, both, or neither?