Nuggets for June 29: Near miss

I'm happy to say that I'm writing this post from the happy land of looking at the big picture. My reasons for writing were not because I actually had this happen to me, or in my workplace. Rather, I'm presenting this as a something to think about while you're working.

First, no one is infallible. Second, computers are great, but they can't critically think. Three, this could happen to anyone.

Here are a couple of articles from the blogosphere about near misses.

Paul Levy from Running a Hospital in Boston blogged about near misses in this blog post.

Florence dot com blogged about her own Coumadin experience in this Nurses' Week article.

An oldie but goodie related article: Health Care Renewal talks about workarounds in bar coded medication administration systems.

Channeling Change of Shift

Yes, it's that time again, and the latest and greatest Change of Shift is up at Florence dot com.

Yours truly will be the next host on June 25, so if you're feeling so inclined, send us your nursing or nursing-related stories. Thanks Kim!

I'm looking for real people, people, so put those fingers to the keyboard and tell us about life in your world. Nursing is 24/7 and that includes holidays. While mine's not a holiday edition per se, feel free to drop in your favorite working the holidays stories, if you're so inclined.

Wanna submit? Check out the submission info via this handy, dandy BlogCarnival link or e-mail me at hotelrehab at nyms dot net.