It’s a step in the right direction, but there is still a human loading the robot leaving the door wide open for many medication errors instead of just one. This will free up time from filling the bottles, but hopefully the technicians are still checking the finished product.
I have heard of a similar system in another hospital where the medicine and patients have abarcodes to supposedly fix errors. The problem there is the rooms were not designed to accomidate computer equipment, some some beds are to accesible to the scanners. What ends up happening is overworked nurses come up with ways around the barcodes to try and get their job done. I wonder if this hospital has looked into any of these potential problems and the additional time it will take the usually already over-worked nursing staff to correctly follow procedure.
well, with the size of computers now days and the portable units we have. this should no longer pose a problem. i don’t think we will find that to be an issue. if we do, then we are just finding excuses to get out of completing a task.
Humans will still have to load & maintain the machine, plenty of room for error.
I’ve always thought that “pharmacists” was a stupid idea made by the Pharmacist unions, they could be replaced for the most part by computerized vending machines.
Most pharmacists don’t make drug compounds but merely package the drugs and a printout of the warnings & dosage-a minimum wage equivalent to a gas station cashier job IMO.
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It’s a step in the right direction, but there is still a human loading the robot leaving the door wide open for many medication errors instead of just one. This will free up time from filling the bottles, but hopefully the technicians are still checking the finished product.
I have heard of a similar system in another hospital where the medicine and patients have abarcodes to supposedly fix errors. The problem there is the rooms were not designed to accomidate computer equipment, some some beds are to accesible to the scanners. What ends up happening is overworked nurses come up with ways around the barcodes to try and get their job done. I wonder if this hospital has looked into any of these potential problems and the additional time it will take the usually already over-worked nursing staff to correctly follow procedure.
Look on the bright side–talking to a robot, you will be spared embarrassment when asking for size small Trojans!
well, with the size of computers now days and the portable units we have. this should no longer pose a problem. i don’t think we will find that to be an issue. if we do, then we are just finding excuses to get out of completing a task.
Humans will still have to load & maintain the machine, plenty of room for error.
I’ve always thought that “pharmacists” was a stupid idea made by the Pharmacist unions, they could be replaced for the most part by computerized vending machines.
Most pharmacists don’t make drug compounds but merely package the drugs and a printout of the warnings & dosage-a minimum wage equivalent to a gas station cashier job IMO.