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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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Sometimes Involving My Vice-President Made Him Look Like A Fool

The Happy PharmD

The pharmacy couldn’t be out of stock of any medication. One of my pharmacy technicians came back from the Intensive Care Nursery. The pharmacy technician told me that the ICN head nurse was calling my Vice-President. The nurses claimed the medication was out of stock. I went to medical records.

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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. I'm just curious to know, how does that compare? Is it better? Is it worse?