DEI? Multiple patients at a Nashville hospital are paralyzed after staff accidentally

IMO, it's a case of Occam's Razor. Hospital was probably using cost-cutting measures. Cheap, good, and fast is basically impossible, but so many facilities think they can get away with it.

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IMO, it's a case of Occam's Razor. Hospital was probably using cost-cutting measures. Cheap, good, and fast is basically impossible, but so many facilities think they can get away with it.

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Did covid profits make them even greedier?

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Helen Crabtree

Ascension.

I worked for an Ascension facility.

They first cut our research department. The drug eluding cardiac stents used worldwide had much of the research done in that facility.

They cut cardiac monitor techs so NO ONE was watching those monitors all the time, nurses were expected to monitor them when everyone of us had 5 to 6 patients on a cardiac stepdown unit running cardiac drips, including the charge nurse. That changed after at least one patient death.

They were going to cut our rapid response team out completely despite the number of times that team kept a patient out of ICU or quick response and rapid orders meant life or death. That was stopped only because of community pressure was so strong against it.

We had no chest tube written policy for at least a year, then they wondered how there were so many complications.

I could go on. They utterly disseminated a fantastic community hospital in which fantastic care was given with the most stable nursing workforce I had ever been a part of. 160 years after the place was started by a group of nuns Ascension sold it to a secular corporation. I am not Catholic and had not worked there for 4 years and I cried my eyes out.

I had loved what I did and worked with people who became my best friends, right up until I simply couldn't anymore.

Ascension was only profit driven, nonprofit isn't what you think. Patient care came behind the money. The change when they put themselves in the driver's seat was clear.

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Interesting if you look up the requirements to be a pharmacy tech. The standards are really low. Like almost non-existent. Pretty much anyone off the street can start mixing up drugs and slapping labels on them.

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Education and Age:

No State Mandate: Tennessee law does not require a high school diploma, GED, minimum age, or formal training program for registration.
Employer Standards: While the state has no requirements, most employers require candidates to be at least 18 years old and hold a high school diploma or GED.

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Not sure why people are downvoting the posts in this thread. Our health care system has serious problems. One of which is the fact that there are many third worlders with phony degrees working in it. I am old enough to remember when this was a respected Nashville hospital.

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Money talks

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And nowhere is this more true than a “non-profit” hospital.

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Interesting if you look up the requirements to be a pharmacy tech. The standards are really low. Like almost non-existent. Pretty much anyone off the street can start mixing up drugs and slapping labels on them.

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Education and Age:

No State Mandate: Tennessee law does not require a high school diploma, GED, minimum age, or formal training program for registration.
Employer Standards: While the state has no requirements, most employers require candidates to be at least 18 years old and hold a high school diploma or GED.

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That's scary...is that part of DEI?

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Could just be simple human error due to being overworked and understaffed

Med mistakes do still happen. It’s unfortunate and the folks affected will and should sue the hospital

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Interesting if you look up the requirements to be a pharmacy tech. The standards are really low. Like almost non-existent. Pretty much anyone off the street can start mixing up drugs and slapping labels on them.

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While yes that is true, the pharmacist is supposed to be the final check before it leaves the pharmacy and sent up to the OR

Yes a technician could’ve made this mistake . Especially while mixing multiple bags with different meds under the hood, I can see how it would happen. Will be curious to see the investigation and report of what failed in this case

You do understand that most medical degrees and training are not reciprocal from other countries? You still have to pass national board certifications and local certifications. This particular example is just sheer incompetence which is a hallmark of most new doctors and nurses but let’s be honest most high school graduates are lining up to take human anatomy and physiology classes much less pharmacology

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While yes that is true, the pharmacist is supposed to be the final check before it leaves the pharmacy and sent up to the OR

Yes a technician could’ve made this mistake . Especially while mixing multiple bags with different meds under the hood, I can see how it would happen. Will be curious to see the investigation and report of what failed in this case

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It looks like protocols are being ignored.

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Melanie S'mores (Campfire Patriot)

People might not get the level of gross incompetence it takes to pull this off is incredibly high. It's not an easy accident. Everything has bright warning labels. If you're barcode scanning, the sytem would alert you with a hard stop that it was the wrong med. Not to mention basic human eyeballs and a second human verification. There are plenty of failsafes in pharmacy med mixing.

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Could just be simple human error due to being overworked and understaffed

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There are procedures in place where this is triple checked.