Nurses are often the first provider seen by patients, particularly in the hospital setting. Unfortunately, nurses make mistakes that cause serious harm or death. These mistakes can include failing to properly monitor a patient post-operatively, failing to give necessary medication, failing to prevent a patient from falling, and failing to properly communicate important clinical findings to doctors and other nurses.
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With electronic medical records comes pressure (and relative ease) in charting things in a visit that simply were not done.
Patient deaths and injuries can be reduced by using standardized communication systems when patients are handed off from one provider to another.
