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Sentinel Events Should Result In A Blameless Society — Not Make The Employee The Scapegoat

The Happy PharmD

In this particular case, the physician folded the medication order when he placed it in the nurse’s bin. The nurse transcribed the medication order on the patient’s (nurse’s) record system. The medication record system containing all the medications that the patient was taking was called the “kardex”.

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7. Reflections on a Career in Pharmacy and Medicine with Dr. Steven Berk

The Physician Pharmacist

And I was working, I got a job in a pharmacy satellite at Erie County Medical Center, I don't know if you're familiar with so County Health Center in Buffalo working in a pharmacy satellite, my last year of pharmacy school, up in the ICUs. He and you know, he was the kind of guy who was interested in medical history.