This was a very interesting assignment. After finally finding a nurse manager to interview, and reviewing the reading material, some interesting points about the electronic medical record system surfaced. I was very glad that Albert talked about the discrepancies between our nursing charting system and that of pharmacy. It has been a major issue at our facility for years. It creates a lot of anger, rivalry, and resentment between pharmacy and nursing; and it also frequently affects patient care.
Other nurses along with myself have brought up these problems many times to administration, but pharmacy just keeps insisting that there is no errors in their system, even when the errors are well documented and staring them right in the face. It has made me furious many times, because on the one hand JC is always harping on how can we reduce medication errors, yet it seems at the same time turns a blind eye to inherent errors generated very frequently as the result of incompatible program issues.
I understand that changing state wide electronic systems is a very costly undertaking. But to me it is just one more example on how human life is cheapened, and the greed motive for the almighty dollar is exalted as far more valuable than human life. In a cold blooded healthcare industry machine that cares about nothing it seems than the bottom line figures, making humans an expendable collateral damage side effect of greed, it angers me to no end. To me it is an out of control greedy monster that needs to be slain, and replaced by a socialized system such as Switzerland or Canada, or every other industrialized nation in the world other than us. I believe that we as nurses need to stand up and fight for our patient's best interest, until the healthcare system is run on the ideals of humanity and compassion, rather than corruption and greed.
Sincerely,
Robin Martin
Sincerely,
Robin Martin
Other nurses along with myself have brought up these problems many times to administration, but pharmacy just keeps insisting that there is no errors in their system, even when the errors are well documented and staring them right in the face. It has made me furious many times, because on the one hand JC is always harping on how can we reduce medication errors, yet it seems at the same time turns a blind eye to inherent errors generated very frequently as the result of incompatible program issues.
I understand that changing state wide electronic systems is a very costly undertaking. But to me it is just one more example on how human life is cheapened, and the greed motive for the almighty dollar is exalted as far more valuable than human life. In a cold blooded healthcare industry machine that cares about nothing it seems than the bottom line figures, making humans an expendable collateral damage side effect of greed, it angers me to no end. To me it is an out of control greedy monster that needs to be slain, and replaced by a socialized system such as Switzerland or Canada, or every other industrialized nation in the world other than us. I believe that we as nurses need to stand up and fight for our patient's best interest, until the healthcare system is run on the ideals of humanity and compassion, rather than corruption and greed.
Sincerely,
Robin Martin
Sincerely,
Robin Martin
