The first time she ever heard of propofol was the first time she ever pushed propofol. "I had no idea what propofol was," she says. "I'd never even heard of it."
The last time she ever pushed propofol was a near-disaster. The elderly cataract patient stopped snoring, then breathing. "We bagged him until he came back," says the RN, who asked that we not identify her. "That was the end of it. You never think this is going to happen to you, but here it is. I went to my administrator and said, ?I can't do this anymore.' I resigned on the spot."
