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Tuesday, 4 April 2006 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keaaluI'd forgotten just the sort of utter mayhem you get on an emergency-admissions surgical ward, medicines-wise. *dies* I think I'd got lazy, on my Elderly care ward, since the consultants were great and I only ever had to order things, or else field the "eh, well that's non formulary, you can't have it - how about..." ones.
Good one this morning. Guy comes in for a laparotomy or something, brings with him his asthma inhalers. They're not written on his chart, so I go and look them up in his notes, so he can get them added on and we can make sure he's okay during his procedure (especially if he needs a GA or something) and what's this, the strength is wrong. Turns out he'd brought his GRANDSON'S in instead of his own because HIS had run out, and when I pointed out that he should be taking a HIGHER dose than he was currently taking, he agreed "oh that's why I felt so out of breath when I went to the shop this morning." GAH. *headdesk* I think the place would run SO much smoother without the patients. :P
And a year on... the robot is STILL playing sillybuggers. They're planning on getting a labelling module installed too, soon - the place is going to implode, we'll be going back to handwritten labels at this rate.
Good one this morning. Guy comes in for a laparotomy or something, brings with him his asthma inhalers. They're not written on his chart, so I go and look them up in his notes, so he can get them added on and we can make sure he's okay during his procedure (especially if he needs a GA or something) and what's this, the strength is wrong. Turns out he'd brought his GRANDSON'S in instead of his own because HIS had run out, and when I pointed out that he should be taking a HIGHER dose than he was currently taking, he agreed "oh that's why I felt so out of breath when I went to the shop this morning." GAH. *headdesk* I think the place would run SO much smoother without the patients. :P
And a year on... the robot is STILL playing sillybuggers. They're planning on getting a labelling module installed too, soon - the place is going to implode, we'll be going back to handwritten labels at this rate.