Protecting The Docs

[cokie]

does anyone else have trouble with doctors that don't flag the charts with new orders, or tell anyone, or put them in the new order rack, and somehow expect the orders to be carried out.......not sure whose job it is to educate the docs about this, and i know that they go to more than one hospital, and that they are busy, but they need to share responsibility for missed orders if they are not going to at least flag the chart. wow, guess i'm still venting (see post, when ob means o-boy, what a night) this also happened last night.

[janetrnc]

At our hospital, in order to avoid missed orders, the night nurse checks the charts for orders to make sure a nurse has signed them off then signs in red that the chart has been rechecked