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Posted on 8/5/16 at 1:34 pm to Epic Cajun
True. However wages and reimbursement is not the bulk of the costs. There is not enough savings to be had by cutting those even in half. There are studies that prove that. To incur significant savings major changes would be needed and quite frankly, Americans are not ready for that. It would require a modicum of personal responsibility and the allocation of resources to be efficient. We want our HTN meds-not to exercise. We want antibiotics for that viral cold and we want granny to stay in ICU for a month after her stroke and wither away with a trach in an LTAC/SNF for another year until she dies of pneumonia.
Posted on 8/5/16 at 2:08 pm to Epic Cajun
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Don't even get me started on EPIC.
Epic failure is more like it. We have to scan our meds at the bedside because it is supposed to decrease the chance of medication errors. Sounds great in theory...but when EPIC won't pop up on the computer or it takes 15 minutes for the system to boot up while you have a 5 year old little girl crying in pain after surgery...wtf are you supposed to do? Me, cause my patient comes first...I'm just gonna give the med without scanning it and save the vial and scan it later. How would you feel if it was your little girl crying in pain and the nurse is too busy fumbling with a computer to give your baby pain meds right away?
On our unit right now we maybe have 3 computers that will load up right away so you can scan meds. The rest of them in the patient rooms either won't load up or take 15 minutes each time you want to access them. IT is fully aware of it...yet doesn't seem to be phased by it. This problem has been an issue for us for like 2 weeks now. They say it's because we have older versions of EPIC on our computers. Well fricking update them then.
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