fenwayman

I work at a multi system hospital that has always employed computer generated labels.
I prefer them to hand written for several reasons
1)legibility-no mistake on who the patient is and their mr# 2)clerical errors-opens the door to errors in interpretation of who you are dealing with.
3) label at the bedside-we had a case several years ago where the nurse had collected a patient in a semi-private room(patient had one room mate) and labelled both patients blood work at the nursing station which lead to a sentinel event-patient eventually died as a result of not labeling at the bedside-can't imagine this practice would even go on anywhere.
I would try all I could do to convince your director to switch from hand written to computer generated and push for Labeling at The Bedside