TraumaRN
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Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Originally posted by: DeathBUA
You know how shows like House, Grey's Anatomy, ER, Scrubs etc like to show how things get screwed up in hospitals? How new interns are flaming retards at times?
Yea, that DOES happen. Worst months to be hospitalized are generally July, August and December. Those are when the fresh out of Med School, brand new interns start rounding. Hospital mortality rates at teaching hospitals usually go up a few ticks during those months.
Example...and this is a kinda mild one. Patient of mine needed 6 units of regular insulin as her blood glucose('blood sugar') was 280mg/dL. My hospital has completely electronic medical records, ordering, charting everything. We page the intern on call. He says ok give me a few minutes. He calls back in 10 minutes and tells the nurse, I cant figure out how to put in a medication order so I'm going to verbally tell you to give 6 units of insulin. Then proceeds to tell her it's perfectly fine.
So then the nurse had to explain over the phone how to put an order in for insulin even though they give the interns cheat sheet books. He said he 'accidently' threw that away cuz he figured he knew enough.
That kinda stuff is scary as hell to me.
Yeah considering if someone doesn't get the message, that woman could have received 12 units or none at all.
It also goes back to the old saying we have, if it's not charted, it never happened.