Hospitals night shift nightmare, anything could be happens including
sudden deaths of wrong prescriptions and the percentage ofwrong doses
because the hospitals at night run by the interns and residents staffs
with notoriously long hours 24-hour and 80 hours work-weeks are common
in hospitals, even in the country's finest hospitals.
A harward medical school study showed that interns on the night shift
injured themselves twice as often as those working during the day. The
people who worked 24-hour shifts had the same performance level of
someone with a blood alcohol content of .10-legally drunk.

Aren't you a writer for "Grey's Anatomy"?

Who knows, lol

Sure looks like he writes for Greys anatomy.

Let see what the stats show about the pilots flying the plane you are
in?
Plz...yes mistakes take place, however new regulation have been in place
like residents cannot work certain amt of hours. Those regulations are
filtering down to nurses as well. Soon we will only be allowed to work a
certain amt of hours per week.
Lesser or two evils- with a nursing shortage...how many mistakes if your
nurse was overload with patients above standards of care vs nurse who
has worked over 40 hours that week.
Also over national patient safety goals are put in place- patient
identifiers, medication labeling, etc.

nurjoyce-I am studying health admin right now, and I have to tell you
that I have all the admiration in the world for the work that nurses
do!

Thank you nus!
I appreciate you

ok well i am a nursing student, and seeing what these doctors have to
through you need to give them props they work hard and very skilled at
what they do and put up with, errors happen every day in every field
look at factory workers they do the same thing and look at the quality
of american made cars still good but have a few quirks her and there , i
am currentally a tec aid at the hospital where i live and i work mad
crazy hours, but somone has to do it!!! its like robbing peter to pay
paul there is such a staff shortage all over the med profession and no
one to work so we have to step up to the plate otherwise you wont be
getting the healthcare that you need period!

The greates hosipital nightmare is receiving the itemized bill later in
the mail. A past boyfriend of mine went in for surgery at SOUTHWEST
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL in Houston, Tx. and on his statement were charges for
2 vaginal packs.

but stuff like that comes down to billing and collections nothing to do
with the doctor, b/c if he didnt recive those packs then the doctor
didnt order it. simply billing they work hard too

OK OK THIS NEEDS CAPS!



OP DONT CREATE MASS HYSTERIA,


WHAT YOU SPEAK IS NOT A GIVEN AT ALL PLACES OR AT ALL TIMES.

THIS HAPPENS OCCASSIONALLY;


AND!


STATS ARE JUST THAT STATS MEANING A DIME A DOZEN.....


MVHO

UMMM also the interns and residents medication orders are checked by a
pharmacist before they are even sent to the floor and the administering
nurse is responsible for checking the meds before he/she gives them to
the patient.......so those stats aren't going to fly with me

oh no you arent sayin night shift workers arent as dependable and are
careless.....no no no im a night shift worker and that is very
offensive

Hmmm.. depends on what hospital you work at I guess. Who checks the
medications in the ER? They don't come from the pharmacy, especially at
night, not even the infusions that need to be mixed, it's all done by
nurses. The only person who checks a docs order before it gets to the
patient is the nurse, and sometimes they don't even know what the
medication is.... But, they have more medication guides and books and
infusion rate charts than anything I've ever seen so it's pretty
straight forward. Of course mistakes are made, it happens... I've seen
some excellent hospitals and some pretty bad ones too..

My personal experience....

I do have to agree with frank though, that by the end of a 24 hr shift,
you feel like your half asleep anyways... if it's been busy.