And what a terrible loss, really:
How could a nurse throw out a kidney before transplant? - CBS News
Nurse mistakenly tosses transplant kidney
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Nurse mistakenly tosses transplant kidney
"The hospital has since enacted clearer policies to clarify communication between nurses who fill in for one another and to make sure nothing is removed from an operating room until the patient has been moved from it, the report said"
I think lack of clear communication was the problem here.
I think lack of clear communication was the problem here.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. R.L. Binyon
Nurse mistakenly tosses transplant kidney
It happens. I remember a long time ago when I was a rookie HVAC tech me and a guy I was training with made a big mistake. We came back to the shop one night and found a 8 ton York self contained commercial heat pump sitting in the junk pile. The coils of the unit being copper and aluminum with copper piping throughout meant that we could take the salvage to the junk yard and sell it. Anyway, we considered it fair game so out comes the sawzalls and battery drills. We had that sucker scrapped and anything of value in the back of the van inside of 25 minutes.
When I came in the next morning the first thing George (service manager) asked me was. "Did you and Tom butcher that York unit in the PARKING LOT last night?" Uh oh..................... ''There was an old one in the SCRAP PILE" I said. "We scrapped it". I was told to go have a coffee in the conference room. I assumed it was going to be my last at this company. A few minutes later Tom came in with George and Roger, the installation manager. The heat pump was still functional and it belonged to a customer. Ouch. We had a heated discussion about where the unit was and I think what saved us our jobs was the fact that there was nothing written on the unit saying not to scrap it. If I remember right it was pretty close to the junk pile at least, and it had rust on it and it was where the installers left their junk. We fought it out and didn't get fired but the next day a memo came down from Old man Kirchoff himself stating in no uncertain terms that any service tech who looks twice at the installers junk pile would be fired on the spot.
It always seems to come down to bad communication when things like this happen. And differences of perception sometimes.
When I came in the next morning the first thing George (service manager) asked me was. "Did you and Tom butcher that York unit in the PARKING LOT last night?" Uh oh..................... ''There was an old one in the SCRAP PILE" I said. "We scrapped it". I was told to go have a coffee in the conference room. I assumed it was going to be my last at this company. A few minutes later Tom came in with George and Roger, the installation manager. The heat pump was still functional and it belonged to a customer. Ouch. We had a heated discussion about where the unit was and I think what saved us our jobs was the fact that there was nothing written on the unit saying not to scrap it. If I remember right it was pretty close to the junk pile at least, and it had rust on it and it was where the installers left their junk. We fought it out and didn't get fired but the next day a memo came down from Old man Kirchoff himself stating in no uncertain terms that any service tech who looks twice at the installers junk pile would be fired on the spot.
It always seems to come down to bad communication when things like this happen. And differences of perception sometimes.