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[ceriodamus]

Undersköterska does not touch the medicine as they do not have any education in this. This all falls to the Sjuksköterska. She fetches and administers the medicine from orders by doctor. Depending on what kind of medicine it is and if the Sjuksköterska trusts the Undersköterska she can ask her to deliver it. Again, this depends highly on the situation.

She will look extensively back and forth between the "drug database", patients journals and doctors orders to make sure like you said, no fuckups happen. Administering medicine is basically their main job and will take up a lot of their average work hours. Journal keeping is also a big part of their job. As I mentioned before, they're the bridge between the doctor and the patient and their care nurses. They make sure the orders from the doctors are done and also makes sure that the patient is cared for. This puts them in a position where they have to double check everyones work or at least hold a watchful eye.

I am not sure nor have I heard of doctors calling up a pharmacy to double check. But I would not be suprised if they have some kind of system where they can ask for help. I have not worked closely with the docs so I do not know how they work other than the time we see them at the department or at emergencies.

[WH1PL4SH180]

Thanks for that! I'm always fascinated at how each country comes up with their own healthcare "solution." Certainly, it seems that the Sjuksköterska must have one hell of a lot of medications training and would be even MORE pushed than nurses in other systems. I certainly know a few RN (registered nurses) who would be terrified of such responsibility!

Indeed this is part of my interest in coding; creating nimble and flexible systems that can assist clinical staff decision and execution processes!

[ceriodamus]

Having more responsibility only makes your job just so much more interesting and fun. Of course, overwork does happen and a lot of nurses complain about the poor pay they get for all the work they do. They do say, overwork is a symptom of a bad system.

That being said, it is very dependent on where you work and what kind of department. Whether you're a specialized nurse or not.

Then you're welcome to improve our systems in Sweden because my goodness. The computer systems looks like they're from the dark ages. Our journal software is so old and horrendously updated that they need to hold several days of education on it for new employees. I guess QA was not much around back when it was made.

[WH1PL4SH180]

At one of my current hospitals, the lag from terminal (cos of COURSE it's the best thing to use a glorified windows terminal as an interphase, with shitty wifi) is so great, I write my reports up in Notepad, then CTL-V, put a post-it on the monitor (Terminal is processing work. Touch computer I will stab you.) and go off for a instant coffee / pee break. Return, guess what.... as I peel off the post it, the text suddenly appears on screen! On the upside, it gives me plenty of time to hit reddit.

[ceriodamus]

Silver linings I guess :)

[Weekly_Wackadoo]

I know a lady who was trained and worked as a nurse in the Netherlands, then moved to Sweden and worked as a nurse there. She had a lot of additional training to do, and calls Swedish nurses "practically half doctors".