When most people walk into a hospital they expect everything to be thoroughly under control. They expect the person that greets them at the front desk to be competent and direct them to the patient they are trying to see; thy expect the nurse’s assistant to properly make up the beds and ensure that the patient is comfortable and that the bed pan and other items are properly cleaned and tended to; they expect the nurses to know what they are talking about when they do rounds on their patients; they expect doctors to be able to treat patients with the utmost care and backing knowledge. Unfortunately, this is often not the case.

All too often, hospitals try to cut corners when it comes to training every person that works there from nurse’s aids, to nurses, to technicians to doctors. And training their staff is the hospital’s responsibility. Yes, it is true that many of these professions require a great deal of school training prior to even being hired on by a hospital, but it takes much more than just school training to adequately care for a person in real life. Because of this, hospitals are required to put new nurses and doctors through rigorous training programs which can last for up to several months and even after that they must shadow other seasoned nurses or doctors before they are actually allowed on the floor.

Even technicians such as those that work in labs must go through thorough training programs prior to working alone. But when it comes down to it, there is a lot of incentive for hospitals to cut corners when it comes to training staff. Some of the many reasons that hospitals try to offer no or sub par training for staff include:

• Money- this is the number one reasons for bad or insufficient training. Training a new doctor or nurse takes a lot of money on the hospital’s part. The hospital is also losing money when they have a nurse or doctor training because the new employee is not on the floor contributing to the hospital in any way.

• Time- it takes a good deal of time to train a new employee and hospitals like to maximize the labor of all the employees

• Organization- a training program must be organized.

To find out more about improper training of hospital employees, visit the website of the Washington medical malpractice lawyers of Fuller & Fuller today.

James Witherspoon