That would be an unusual glitch, and one that wouldn’t be able to reach the patient, especially not in my specialty where we don’t have pumps at all let alone ones the computer can control. More likely is the resident gives a verbal instead and doesn’t get the benefit of allergy / dosing warnings. Tbh it’s actually not uncommon for the doctor to accidentally order a new scheduled dose and forget to discontinue the old dose just through pure human error but that’s pretty easy to catch because it looks hella weird in the MAR and most of the time it pops an error or at the very least pharmacy just refuses to approve it before it even gets to me. I’ve been licensed for five years now and I can only think of maybe like four times that particular error has ever even made it as far as me and it was human error every time.
good thing it dint glitch out and tried out to double order the meds.
That would be an unusual glitch, and one that wouldn’t be able to reach the patient, especially not in my specialty where we don’t have pumps at all let alone ones the computer can control. More likely is the resident gives a verbal instead and doesn’t get the benefit of allergy / dosing warnings. Tbh it’s actually not uncommon for the doctor to accidentally order a new scheduled dose and forget to discontinue the old dose just through pure human error but that’s pretty easy to catch because it looks hella weird in the MAR and most of the time it pops an error or at the very least pharmacy just refuses to approve it before it even gets to me. I’ve been licensed for five years now and I can only think of maybe like four times that particular error has ever even made it as far as me and it was human error every time.
are you a pharm tech or pharmacist by any chance,.
no RN so the person actually putting the med into the patient