It's happening in our hospital now as we have just implemented computerized physician order entry (literally just last week was the start date). I don't think

It's happening in our hospital now as we have just implemented computerized physician order entry (literally just last week was the start date). I don't think it's fair to blame the physicians and nurses - sometimes it is the hospital and its IT staff and the software being used. The machines we are equipped we are REALLY slow, the servers are slow, and there are not enough machines available. That makes it a real pain to enter orders now. There has to be some ability to "freelance" an order in the system and there really isn't. I understand why, the order should be standardized so the system automatically recognizes what the medication is, what the dosing is, whether it may interact with other meds, etc. But that's time consuming for the medical provider - unless it's executed exceptionally well.