100k is the number I have heard.
We are always trying to implement new procedures. Problems include bad handwriting, medications that sound or are spelled similarly, and many other things.
For example, I had a friend who told me once he ordered 4mg Magnesium Sulfate to be given IV. The nurse called him back said "We don't have 4mg of morphine, I've checked". And he almost shat a brick.
In case you don't know, 4mg of morphine IV would probably kill a horse.
Even if it looked like he wrote for morphine, the nurse should have known not administer that much.
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