Since Nov. 9, the day Kathleen Shinn watched life leave her daughter's tiny body inside Summerlin Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, she has searched for answers to how and why her child was given a lethal overdose of zinc.

The registered nurse finally got answers Wednesday.

A day-long state Pharmacy Board hearing examined who was responsible for the error that ended Alyssa Shinn's brief life. Kathleen Shinn learned her baby girl was given a dose of zinc 1,000 times larger than her attending physician had ordered to be added to the intravenous solution that was her only source of nutrition.

See full story at:

http://www.lvrj.com/news/8723912.html?imw=Y

NAWLINSGIRL