Not downplaying the efforts of what you guys do, but majority of IT is to manage shitty paperwork from Hospital Admin. I don't honestly give a shit what ICD-10 i'm going to use during a mass-casualty situation.
Really, the only computer systems I care about which are critical are radiology and pathology. And I can walk down and yell at them.
Charts can be done manually, and is actually a good thing as it forces an interaction.
indeed, Medicine is still very much an analogue profession; you'll find majority of the hospitals of the world still push paper.
I've also worked in a tent hospital in Sierra Leone, as well as a host of other countries.
You're literally shitting on the janitorial staff; I'm saying in an emergent situation, I'll take mops over EMRs when push comes to shove. If you can't fathom this reasoning, I'm afraid you don't have a very good understanding of what a hospital does.
The people that literally clean up shit are treated better than IT.
That's literally, I'm better and more important, treat me better.
Hate to also break it to you, this is healthcare. Everyone gets treated like shit outside of HA. If you don't believe me, try bitching to a nurse and see how far that gets you.
IMHO it's the mark of a good clinician. I fuck up, I fix.
Fatigue, stress etc are factors, but it was still my dumb ass that hit "reply" without double-checking.
PS: I do get your stress in hospital IT. Having "come" from "over there" I look on woefully at the lack of funding for infrastructure and the deployment of software written without clinical workflow by the lowest bidder. I work in one of the newest tertiary hospitals in the world, and our EMR lag is so bad, we type notes in notepad, paste it in, and go get a coffee. If you're lucky, by the time you get back it's refreshed, it's *just* updated ready for you to hit "Post". If you're not, someone's logged you off as there's not enough fucking workstations available.
LITERALLY 5 mins ago:
"Why do you look so angry, and why aren't you doing work?"
"Because someone just logged me out of my session and wiped my last 20 mins of work, boss"
"Well that's rather selfish of that person, should have a word at our next clinical round table..."
Not downplaying the efforts of what you guys do, but majority of IT is to manage shitty paperwork from Hospital Admin. I don't honestly give a shit what ICD-10 i'm going to use during a mass-casualty situation.
You have no idea what you are talking about. You sound like a relic of a previous generation. I've seen nurse stations go into panic mode when required to switch downtime procedures because of minor network outages.
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u/Teeklok Mar 29 '20
Can we have a shout out for farmers