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Yes and there is an added benefit to frequent interruptions: despite all the monitoring equipement, a human assessment can go a LONG way in detecting trouble. M
by athenot 8y ago
Yes and there is an added benefit to frequent interruptions: despite all the monitoring equipement, a human assessment can go a LONG way in detecting trouble. My wife used to be an ICU nurse and her first code (CPR) in her career was when she was doing some routine stuff for the patient and noticed the color of their skin "looked different". When the patient's heart stopped beating, she was already there to get it back going, saving some precious delay.
For non-ICU stuff, yes there could be some better coordination around sleeping time, but again there's so much non-verbal stuff going on in just a physical assessment.
What would really be useful is having cleaning services and admin/billing services come at the same time (well, right after) a nurse comes, to take advantage of that interruption.
- moneil971 8y agoAgreed, but even the medical services aren't coordinated. I was in for 4 days earlier this year -- in addition to being woken for blood draws, I was woken on a diff schedule for meds and still a third for breathing treatments..meaning every 2 hours I was woken up 3 different times...then early am they'd come to get a breakfast order.
- arkades 8y agoNor are they going to be coordinated, because each of these services addresses a number of different units in the hospital. In order to have all of these services available for each patient in concert, we'd need to multiply the staffing by four or five fold. That holds as true for coordinating physician visits as it does for the other services. I don't want to make it sound like it's impossible. It's not. But it is incredibly inefficient - which is why it doesn't happen - and the answer to "How can we make it happen?" is "Pay for it."