[Expert Solution]: You ask a colleague on your team for advice…

You ask a colleague on your team for advice about a medication error you have made, telling him that you misread the packaging on a medication and mistakenly gave a lower dosage of pain medication to a patient earlier that day. The patient has not experienced any adverse effects due to the lower dose and is unaware of the mistake. The colleague says “Don’t worry about it. If you had given too much medication that would be different. But there’s no harm done in this case. The patient might get upset and it would look bad on your record.”