You will make mistakes

[cd365c]

Last week in the hospital, I was caring for a patient with severe pain and anxiety. I took their vitals every 4 hours, but I failed to record them in the charting system. At the end of my shift , my nurse comes screaming to me because the patient's blood pressure was 200/90. I let them know that, but I didn't have blood pressures from the last 8 hours in the computer system. Earlier at around 11 in the morning, I recorded a BP of 170/70. The nurse didn't know it was that high and never gave medication to lower it.

By the time it was 200, the nurse had to notify the doctor with no previous blood pressure to report to the doctor. Basically, the point from this is: you will make mistakes. I would always write down your vitals that you take, even if the machines automatically take them. You never know when it will not make it from the machine to the charting system.

[cd365c]

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