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So, how does everyone feel about the New Jersey hospital that decided to pull pain meds out of their ED?

OK, so now it's time for MY rant. I have worked in LTC off and on now for over 20 years. I also worked in hospitals for the same amount of time (usually, at the same time). I have noticed the bad rap LTC gets from others, and I am getting fed up wi...

Or a zombie.

Actually, my nurse shirt says "I'm a nurse, if you Fib, I will paddle you".

Oh, and BTW, here is the program I had seen on CNN the other day. I claim no rights to this. It belongs to CNN.

Good morning everyone, I was watching the news, winding down from a night shift, when I heard that medical errors are the third leading cause of death. I Googled it, and found these: Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in Un...

I still think it would be Ferguson syndrome all over again. All I would like to see from this is an accurate way to track the info, and a system put in place to use that info to help fix the problems. As you are alluding to, misdiagnosis does happe...

Again, on a side note, more networks seem to be putting their spin on this. 5/25/16 Headline news had a special called "Top 25 Medical Errors". It was a 60 minute show.

I disagree. That would be the exact opposite of what is needed. I still feel if they are willing to shell out money for other causes of death, why not this? The doctors and nurses are human. Thankfully, most of our mistakes don't kill. It still ...

And, the weird thing is, we are only talking about a 1.6% error rate. I, personally, would just like to see the type of funds going to reduce the numbers of mistakes. Oh, and on a side note, if you watch House, it shows 3 or 4 medical errors before p...

The 1:1, plus if they started tanking. The floor had a census of 8:1, while the unit is closed half the time. The board just felt it was safer. Then they would be assessed by the county mental health agent in the AM, then either sent to the state hos...

Huh. Looks like it depends on where you work. Where I work, if the county MH person can not make it to assess them at that time, usually over 5 hours wait time, the patient is admitted to ICU. But, our hospital is a small, rural hospital. They would ...

Lol, I was wondering if anyone else was going to catch that. Which means if the OP would look at the information coming from ED, she would have found most of the information she needed, and would probably not have gotten upset with the patient in the...

Nothing from either job.

I have. Though it has been many years ago.

Just remember to ask a question.

Quite agree Macawake. There is not a procedure that is done that is 100% safe. I also applaud what the researchers are trying to do, and still feel the system needs to have some way to look at the errors, so that best practices can be changed, if t...

Did the same with my wife, so she would understand what was going on in the new movie.

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What I am getting from the article that the example came from, I think it would still be considered a medical error, since it would be an unexpected outcome, even though it would also be a possible risk. The reasons they are estimating the amount of ...

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Hey Pangea, I am not getting may be from what I have been reading, but is. Although, the number might be higher, since it looks like they are only talking about acute care hospitals, and not including surgery centers, LTC's, LTAC's, clinics, etc. H...

The PP likes to lick the tongue depresser before using it on the patient.

The PP goes around telling the patients in ICU to make their own beds, and there had better be straight hospital corners.