Okay, I admit I have been known to have many pre-conceived notions (I merely consider them strong opinions) but I think this one I'm about to share is valid. As far as I'm concerned, many Oyinbos suffer from obsessive compulsiveness. I mean, there is such as thing as too much detail! The new storm brewing in my world is our upcoming transition to Computerized Prescriber Order Entry (CPOE). In a nutshell, this means physicians instead of writing their orders, enter them directly into a computer. Then the medication orders come to us etc. Well, this means there has to be a lot of uniformity across the system cos different health care providers have different meanings for same things. So somewhere along the lines nursing leaders decided that medication should be input to be given at the next hour. They were warned that meant nurses would potentially have to be administering medications to adults every hour of the day! They insisted. Now we are about to go live and its going crazzzzzzy, I tell you. To me, Oyinbos are always going for perfection. They drill down into every minute detail. Don't get me wrong, detail is good. That is a quality I feel I as a Nigerian, I don't have enough of but gosh, the detail I see here is huge. We take months and months to solve issues. A single question always becomes a project and so forth. Wish me well, my phone will be going off the hook from next week but it will die down ... eventually.

posted by lala @ 3:05 PM

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