Zone1 Beauty Culture and Works-Based Religions: Mormons and Amish

[HikerGuy83]

Are you sure that we aren't nearly there already?

We are rather hypnotized by our phones and all the various types of entertainment.

Amen to that.

 

[braalian]

O.k.

I would agree for the most part. However, I think it will be more an economic collapse.

I’ll admit our over reliance on the internet could lead to a swift collapse if anything (solar flare, cyber warfare) ever took the web down for more than a week or so.

I’ve been a nurse for 16 years now. When I started most nursing homes, being less technologically advanced than big hospitals, still used paper charting.

No computers. We hand wrote notes in charts, we initialed little boxes on paper MARs for each pill we administered, and had to manually update them at the end of each and every month. Doctors wrote orders in the chart that we had to co-sign and implement.

Fast forward 16 years later, and it’s all on computer. If the internet went kaput today, we’d literally have no way of knowing what medications and treatments our patients are supposed to get (aside from memory, which is obviously dangerous)

The system would collapse completely and collapse immediately

 

[HikerGuy83]

I’ll admit our over reliance on the internet could lead to a swift collapse if anything (solar flare, cyber warfare) ever took the web down for more than a week or so.

I’ve been a nurse for 16 years now. When I started most nursing homes, being less technologically advanced than big hospitals, still used paper charting.

No computers. We hand wrote notes in charts, we initialed little boxes on paper MARs for each pill we administered, and had to manually update them at the end of each and every month. Doctors wrote orders in the chart that we had to co-sign and implement.

Fast forward 16 years later, and it’s all on computer. If the internet went kaput today, we’d literally have no way of knowing what medications and treatments our patients are supposed to get (aside from memory, which is obviously dangerous)

The system would collapse completely and collapse immediately

Thanks for sharing.

If I ever go into the hospital, I might consider keeping my own record for the very reasons you explained.

 

[braalian]

Thanks for sharing.

If I ever go into the hospital, I might consider keeping my own record for the very reasons you explained.

I remember when we first shifted from paper to electronic medical records, facilities would still print out monthly MARs for the event of “emergency down time” if the electronic MAR was unavailable for any length of time. Obviously not up to date by the day, but it was better than nothing

Nobody does that anymore because it’s deemed too time consuming and expensive and a waste of paper.

I honestly think the younger nurses would be in literal tears if they had to paper charting for even a day