Question

You have been admitted to your local hospital for chest pain. An EKG was performed on you and now you are waiting for a lab technician to draw blood to test your cardiac enzyme levels. Moments before the technician arrives your nurse comes in with a puzzled look. You ask what's wrong and they mention that another EKG order has appeared for you. The nurse verifies that you have in fact just had one and steps out to contact the Cardiologist. As it turns out, the second EKG ordered by the Cardiologist was for another patient.

In your initial post, discuss the potential outcomes that could have occurred if the nurse hadn't been diligent in reviewing your orders. Describe the impacts this mistake may have had on you, the other patient, and the hospital?

In your response post, create a plan to prevent this mistake from happening in the future. Include in your plan what you think may have gone wrong within the Electronic Health Record. Be sure to comment on your peer's plans and how they might want to revise their plans.

Answer 1

Potential outcomes-

1.there will be a huge mistake occurs if the nurse had not been diligent in receiving your order.If EKG done twice a day then follow ing problems will occur-

1.a reaction to the electrode adhesive may cause redness or swelling where the patches were placed.

2.patient may feel overly tired or very weak.

3.patient may experience coughing spells or a long term cough.

4.shortness of breath.

6.a feeling that your heart is beating evenly.

Impact on patient and other patients-

1.patient feel scared.

2.patient and other patients develop a bad idea about treatment procedure,doctors and hospitals protocol.

3.patient feel anxious.

4.patient will be thinking twice before coming to the hospital.

Impact on hospital-

1 .hospital reputation will be decreased than before.

2.hospital may loose some of patient.

3.they can learn a lesson form this mistake and will not repeat the same thing.