Monday, December 3, 2007
Hospital Errors??
We all know that our only hospital, Belau National Hospital, is one of the most modern and comprehensive hospitals in Micronesia. However, there have been error cases that are not publicly acknowledged. For example: this year alone I have known 4 people (close relatives) that have been given false information because their blood samples. Somehow their samples have been mixed up with other people's. How scary is that! If this would have happened in the U.S., there would have been a couple big lawsuits. What do you have to say about this? Should we just put it under the table and hush hush; or is there something that should be done about it and how?
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This is problem when you hire the nurse or nurse aide with in the island. Couple of months at Nursing School in PCC and this and that and you think you are qualified then you are waiting for the time bomb to explode. Here are some examples of what going on; I hope nobody died from these mistakes. It won't suprise be if our only hospital get pressed to pay lots of millions for the simple error they done.
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that's true. i guess we go back to the question of whether or not college grads should return home. also, not only the nurses, i think they do a good job. i believe that there should be strict measures concerning procedures, or the hospital should be tested for QA every month or so. after all, people's lives depend on that one hospital.
The issue is not whether the employees were trained in Palau or outside Palau. The problem is there is no protocol in place to track down the medical errors. There should be a process in place that prevents the errors from happening again. Also the attitude is no harm, no foul. The Palau Government should form a committe
to audit the hospital quaterly. Our hospital has the technology and knowledge to be a top rate hospital. However, the people in charge should have some knowledge of how a hospital should operate. They should be held accountable for the operation of the hospital.
For stone...
If you are talking about the Nurse assistants (NA) who are working at the Belau National Hospital, let me correct you. But first,please do not degrade the nurses that are training and are attending Palau Community College. I will vouch for them as they are taking classes BOTH at Palau Community College AND at the hospital where our fellow doctors and nurses are teaching them. And with this, they are working while being trained WHILE under supervision of other doctors and nurses that got their nursing degrees OUTSIDE Palau, that took them MORE than a couple of months. While you are waiting for a bomb to explode, the nursing students of Palau Community College made a decision to help out their country and its peoples THERE! They are not off-island b**** and moaning about their pay scale. So please, at least e te ngarngii a re kongei el mo mesuub el mo nurse (EL CHAD RA BELAU, thank goodness!) e kiei lolengeseu ra rechad ra beluad. Because if I am not mistaken, ea Belau National Hospital is short of nurses and doctors.
Secondly, errors in the hospital are inevitable. The doctors and nurses can only do so much in their power to help the ones in need.
"Bom chermii ra uchei ra omdu ng mekngit a 'chazi' er ngii."
Sulang!
Hello, This is for stone, I just want to say thank you, because what you said about the NA in our hospital, Who spent their time and effort to become a nurse assistant to be a backbone for the register nurse and doctors in belau hospital.That is why there is a CNA and LPN then so forth, Because RN and Doctors cannot do all nusing task by themselves. And we should not say any negative comment about the NA in palau hospital, because there are sure doing a wonderful job, taking care of our family while we are here in the US making money for our benefits. To add more to that nursing is not for everybody, you must have a patient and a good heart and willing to go extra mile to care for sick patient.
Thank you
People need to be more conscious about their health. Alot of our health problem are a result of dietary change. STOP eating processed food!!. Hey Family what do you guys think about the Micronesian problem in Hawaii. In the past year, 10 thousand chuukese arrive in Hawaii over burdening social service. A lot are uneducated, can’t speak English and have created a negative reaction from the native people toward all Micronesians. They refer to themselves as Micronesians not chuukese, so everybody think were all the same people. Its crazy!!
Well some of these comments are realy true, yet, we seem to look more on the problem rather than focus on solutions. The training the NA in Palau have, has both good and bad to it. One being that the technology and in debt knoweledge of disease information are rearly available. Interpretation of blood results and sepcific diagnosis of certain types of illnesess are evaluted by doctors and not nurses. The good thing is, they are at home helping yes, they are, but new ideas, techniques, and new information are not readily availabe and so they fall short sometimes. This is human error and not, the blame of nursing association in Belau.
People who make mistakes can learn from their mistakes.Someone once said:"Preaching is fatal.I try to give readers a slice out of life, and if there is any moral or lesson in it I do not point it out.I let the reader find it for himself".Those nurses makes a big difference.Be understanding.
I am sitting on both sides of the fence. I don't agree with stone's comment in its entirety. I do believe that Palau's nurses do their job to the best of their knowledge and that they make a big difference but imagine how much more of a difference they can make if they took their training a little further.
For instance, how bout finding a way to arrange for a group of nurses in each specialty to go abroad for additional training? If that is too expensive then why not have a different specialist come in to Palau and teach there? There are also online nursing courses that one could take.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that our nurses are incompetent. What I'm saying is that the learning never stops and Palau could only benefit if our nurses were trained to the fullest.
On the other hand, not all of our nurses are professional. I went to the hospital in April to have some norplants inserted. I waited almost three hours for a fifteen minute procedure and there were only two other women there and we each waited about the same amount of time. You walk into the Public Health and there is olbaol on top of the desks, nurses are gossiping and seem irritated when a patient walks in. I've taken my son to Public Health for his immunizations and these nurses are stabbing straight down into my baby's leg as opposed to going in at an angle like my son's pediatrician in the states does. Some of these nurses don't take their job seriously. They got a lackadaisical attitude towards their responsibilities and duties as a nurse.
I think it's great that we make comments about issues, but if you have the time to speak and then you should have time to act.
Let's come up with solutions, instead of just commmenting on an issue.
I will be more than willing to be part of a team that finds solutions and if any of you is willing, let me know.
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I just got one word for this problem, TRAINING, and the hospital and the city should start holding some people liable for this type of mistakes. Set some examples and it should eliminate errors.
I, of course, a newcomer to this blog, but the author does not agree
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