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In your experience, how common and how severe are wrong time” med errors? How much of it is just being 31 minutes off and not a big deal, and how much is a real problem? Is it something that you worry about? To give more background, I am not a nurse but am interested in healthcare technology (so I apologize in advance for dumb questions!). It seems that barcode medication administration (BCMA) helps a lot with the other rights. For med timing though, it can only prevent a too-early” error. But in practice, is it more common to have a too-early or too-late error? I am also curious, what do you think are the main causes of these errors? Is it bottlenecks at the Pyxis that delay everybody's morning med pass? Being constantly interrupted by call lights? Or just being assigned to too many patients at once, that it's impossible to get everything done in time? Do you use any tools or processes to manage the scheduling of meds?

Hi everyone! I'm a roboticist and postdoc at Georgia Tech, working with a professor from Georgia Tech on the idea of using robots to assist nurses in their daily work. With nurses being the center of patient care, being so stretched for time, and also there being a shortage of nursing skills, it seems like there are some opportunities here. But we'd like to get input from nurses on this topic. We've heard from some nurses that getting meds and supplies is a big time sink. Is this true in your experience? What other tasks take away a lot of time from patient care every day? Where would you like service robots to help, if at all? Crystal