Got QA’d for something I didn’t do.
TLDR; Medic put my BGL and glucose administration at the wrong time.
So, me and my partner were dispatched for a fall. We get there and pt is slurring with arm drift. I take two BGL’s since after seeing the first so low I wanted to make sure before administering glucose. Both were low. Pt was a&o4 and alert to verbal when we got there. Glucose was admitted and the time was marked as a general event. Medic arrives and administers D10 and we head to the hospital.
Essentially, I told the medic that the generic event was the glucose administration so he would know for his report. The medic added the BGL in for a time after the generic event (glucose administration) which is obviously wrong since id check BGL before glucose.
Me and my partner got QA’d, the medic did not. We were QA’d because the medic put the time of BGL acquisition to 15ish minutes after being at the patient.
Should I have made sure to put the vitals in at the correct time? Yes, and I understand that. Should the BGL have been acquired before a Cincinnati? Yes, yes it should’ve. That being said, BGL was taken a few minutes after scene arrival. Those minutes being used to get to the patient and get him off of the floor.
It frustrates me that I now look like an incompetent provider to my supervisor due to a time/charting error. What could I have done better in this situation? Is it worth brining up to my supervisor or should I just let it go?
Posted Jul 6, 2026, 1:13 PM UTC