Comments on: PCC prioritizes health inter professional discipline space due to industry demand

By: One face in a sea of students

One face in a sea of students — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:04:10 +0000

Will this bond help create more nursing program opportunities to help curb the overwhelming influx of students applying to your school every year? If yes, when will this be implemented? If not, why is this not a priority?

By: Kathy Grassley

Kathy Grassley — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:18:20 +0000

to Concerned: What you say is, to some degree, true. However, the medical professions are arguably one of the most documented. Everything that is done to/for the patient is documented and signed off on. There is and always will be ways around the system but an overworked health professional that is covering way too many patients is more bound to make an error. I think the critical decisions would still be left to the same group of practitioners they are now but they DO need more support. Having been around Medicine for quite a few years, I’d trust the nurse who is with the patient for hours on end to know when something is “just not right” almost more than the doctor who sees the patient for 15 minutes or so and then moves to the next.

By: Concerned

Concerned — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:51:16 +0000

The problem I see with this system is that you can not hold any one person accountable. Have you heard the term “The buck stops here”? It means that someone is taking the responsibility for any errors. In the system that is being proposed where multiple people weigh in on a patients care, it can create an environment where people can hide behind the group decision. I have seen it in other industries. It is hard to hold someone accountable and if you can’t hold someone accountable then people get sloppy.