I am a nurse. Our hospital was nearly completely shut down for the day. All surgeries cancelled. All procedures using imaging cancelled except ultrasound because the images could be stored separately and uploaded later. We reverted to EDT mode( electronic down time) --essential old school paper mode. ( It immediately became evident that …
I am a nurse. Our hospital was nearly completely shut down for the day. All surgeries cancelled. All procedures using imaging cancelled except ultrasound because the images could be stored separately and uploaded later. We reverted to EDT mode( electronic down time) --essential old school paper mode. ( It immediately became evident that of the 2 pages of assessment questions, a FULL3/4 are social assessment questions and almost NOTHING on the forms regarding home medications or medical historical information! ) The forms were obviously designed by people that never used a paper form before. The hospital was hemorrhaging money, meetings withl admin all day no communication to the staff of the outcomes and everyone outside a skeleton crew sent home without pay( you can opt for vacation time). Being Friday no one knows what Monday will bring. Show up and sort it out. A week of this will sink a hospital. Of course, I'm in charge Monday and the bosses are on vacay. Fun times for one and all.
My second thought was Y2K, because computers were not smart enough to know 2000 comes after 1999. Billions went into preparing for disaster that never came. Today we're told computers are an existential threat because AI can think for itself and queries pull up pictures of a Black George Washington and female Nazi soldiers.
Oh Max,I didn't say THAT! I'm biding my time in ambulatory care these days where I don't have to participate in that kind of behavior. I quit ICU during Covid due to the horrors I observed. If the economy doesn't get any worse I will be able to walk away entirely in the next year or so. 🙏
I know you didn’t say that. My response was a dig at those in your profession that did. I pray that you will be able to walk away regardless of the economy whatever form it eventually takes. Love & light to you. 🙏💪🙏❤️
We do. But much of the technology used in surgeries and imaging to be able to perform the surgery is reliant and computers to operate it and save the data.
Paper charting can be used for notating and ordering but histories, allergies and mediction data are stored and therefore weren't accessible.
If I had a dime for every patient that said to me " I don't know what I take, you have it in the computer" I could have retired ten years ago .
Even on our simple procedures we were"flying blind".
I am a nurse. Our hospital was nearly completely shut down for the day. All surgeries cancelled. All procedures using imaging cancelled except ultrasound because the images could be stored separately and uploaded later. We reverted to EDT mode( electronic down time) --essential old school paper mode. ( It immediately became evident that of the 2 pages of assessment questions, a FULL3/4 are social assessment questions and almost NOTHING on the forms regarding home medications or medical historical information! ) The forms were obviously designed by people that never used a paper form before. The hospital was hemorrhaging money, meetings withl admin all day no communication to the staff of the outcomes and everyone outside a skeleton crew sent home without pay( you can opt for vacation time). Being Friday no one knows what Monday will bring. Show up and sort it out. A week of this will sink a hospital. Of course, I'm in charge Monday and the bosses are on vacay. Fun times for one and all.
My second thought was Y2K, because computers were not smart enough to know 2000 comes after 1999. Billions went into preparing for disaster that never came. Today we're told computers are an existential threat because AI can think for itself and queries pull up pictures of a Black George Washington and female Nazi soldiers.
I'll let you guess my first thought 🤔
No offence, but at least no one was put on a ventilator so a bit of a win!
Oh Max,I didn't say THAT! I'm biding my time in ambulatory care these days where I don't have to participate in that kind of behavior. I quit ICU during Covid due to the horrors I observed. If the economy doesn't get any worse I will be able to walk away entirely in the next year or so. 🙏
I know you didn’t say that. My response was a dig at those in your profession that did. I pray that you will be able to walk away regardless of the economy whatever form it eventually takes. Love & light to you. 🙏💪🙏❤️
Thanks Max❤️ I feel the same as you.💔
My BFF had her cataract surgery that day at our local hospital and we found out they keep paper backups to their computer system.
We do. But much of the technology used in surgeries and imaging to be able to perform the surgery is reliant and computers to operate it and save the data.
Paper charting can be used for notating and ordering but histories, allergies and mediction data are stored and therefore weren't accessible.
If I had a dime for every patient that said to me " I don't know what I take, you have it in the computer" I could have retired ten years ago .
Even on our simple procedures we were"flying blind".