For registered nurse Kimberly Hiatt, the horror began last Sept. 14, the moment she realized she d overdosed a fragile baby with 10 times too much medication.
Stunned, she told nearby staff at the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Seattle Children s Hospital what had happened. It was in the line of, Oh my God, I have given too much calcium, recalled a fellow nurse, Michelle Asplin, in a statement to state investigators.
In Hiatt s 24-year career, all of it at Seattle Children s, dispensing 1.4 grams of calcium chloride instead of the correct dose of 140 milligrams was the only serious medical mistake she d ever made, public investigation records show.
She was devastated, just devastated, said Lyn Hiatt, 49, of Seattle, Kim s partner and co-parent of their two children, Eli, 18, and Sydney, 16.
