Your funniest "are you serious?!?!" MIDAS report

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Recently our manager told us to stop putting in frivolous Midas reports and that it goes into corporate.

Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education.

I really don't understand this post.

Recently our manager told us to stop putting in frivolous Midas reports and that it goes into corporate.

That's the best way to report frivolous things if you feel the need to report them. Personally, I can't be bothered unless the situation is DEADLY-serious. Some people sit down at the end of a shift and write them out like Christmas cards. Good for them, I guess. I would rather go home and sleep.

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Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education.

Thank you. We have a different system for the same thing. I, too, have only used it for significant safety events. It also has an option for compliments or comments. I used it once for that. Outstanding attention from a wound/ostomy nurse who came to the ED to perform a time intensive ostomy intervention.

She really earned that kudos.

Got midas'd once for not wearing gloves while intubating someone in the OR. By an nurse from the outside observing.

Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education.

How could they see you had no gloves? (I assume you must have had them on, at least to protect yourself).

Some people's children /shaking my head (the reporter, not the reportee).

How could they see you had no gloves? (I assume you must have had them on, at least to protect yourself).

Some people's children /shaking my head (the reporter, not the reportee).

Oh...haha....no...outside as in was not an OR nurse. I didn't have gloves on (as is a good practice)...I had a senior moment or something...but a midas? Just silly.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

Despite the misleading title, I think this thread is not meant to be about Midas reports necessarily. I think it's meant to ask for the moments when management makes jaw-dropping statements or requests.

Specializes in Gerontology.

What is a MIDAS report?

i have never heard of the term

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What is a MIDAS report?

i have never heard of the term

It's an incident report.

Specializes in Nurse Scientist-Research.

I'm not sure but it might be that MIDAS is an internal reporting system for the OP's employer. It's my understanding that the lawyers try to change the name of these reporting systems off and on in an attempt to keep them from legal discovery. As in the plaintiff's lawyers ask for "incident reports". Defendant replies, sorry, we don't have anything called and "incident report". The game will continue until the plaintiff guesses what the defendant hospital's incident reporting system is called. "Oh, can we have all your MIDAS reports?".

Just a guess, maybe I'm off target.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

This is probably going to be a really unpopular opinion

It is important to report 'near misses' as well as actual adverse incidents.... because THAT is where the real improvements come from. Serious events always get a lot of attention, especially "never events" and sentinel events. But those are usually about finding about what happened and taking corrective actions after the fact.

The 'near miss' information provides information about bad processes or systems... things like nurses skipping steps in order to cope with higher workloads; or inaccurate sponge counts because there aren't enough veteran OR nurses left to hold the line against impatient surgeons. Maybe nothing bad has happened yet, but it's probably only a matter of time until it does.

So, yeah, I would definitely take appropriate action if I saw someone doing an sterile procedure without gloves or other adequate safeguards. I hope you would too.

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