A Nursing Error Led to My Son’s Unexpected Death

The Doctor Weighs In
6 min readAug 20, 2018

By Victoria Ireland

Nursing errors and the unmonitored use of patient-controlled analgesia led to the unexpected death of a mother’s only child. It could have been prevented.

On Saturday, the 5th of November, 2011, my life fell apart when my only son Tyler left this world. Nursing errors led to his unexpected death.

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