Is healthcare suffering from lack of independent judgement?

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My daughter is a teacher and many times she laments about students, standardized testing and the lack of independent judgment given to educational professionals. She said "they try to paint everything with the same brush." I told her that I feel that way in nursing too. Protocols, checklists and policies run my day; but shouldn't medical professionals be able to have some independent judgment too? Are we trading our individuality in today's society for standardization?

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
2 minutes ago, Krispy Kritter said:

shouldn't medical professionals be able to have some independent judgment too?

Yes!

But we have to do it covertly out of the sight of the video monitors.

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Personally speaking I get quite a thrill when I intentionally and knowingly do something against policy and protocol.

Common sense and common decency sometimes trump policy and protocol.

I am, of course, not referring to giving medications or doing a procedure, but other "minor" interventions.

As Davy Do said, covertly out of the sight of the video monitors or make sure the "by the book" nurses aren't aware.

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