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Recording at Work: The Viral MedPass Controversy and AI's Healthcare Takeover
A viral incident of a nurse conducting a medication pass live on TikTok has sparked intense discussion about professional boundaries in healthcare. This nurse's actions—stating a patient's name, making medication errors, and dismissing concerns from viewers—serve as a powerful reminder about the responsibilities that come with licensure. Rather than simply criticizing, we explore this as a learning opportunity for all healthcare professionals about maintaining appropriate boundaries while creating content.
The conversation shifts to examining arguably the most significant transformation happening in healthcare today: the integration of artificial intelligence into direct patient care. China's announcement of the world's first AI hospital capable of treating 10,000 patients in just days with a 93% diagnostic accuracy rate signals a profound shift in how we might deliver healthcare in the future. Meanwhile, Walgreens' implementation of robot pharmacists that can fill 300 prescriptions hourly—equivalent to a full pharmacy staff's daily output—demonstrates this revolution is already underway in the United States.
Instead of approaching these technological advancements with fear, we suggest healthcare professionals consider how to leverage AI tools to enhance their practice and career development. The irreplaceable human elements of care—empathy, compassion, and personalized attention—will likely become even more valuable as routine tasks become automated. By embracing technology while emphasizing our uniquely human capabilities, we can potentially provide better patient care while securing our professional future in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape. Share your thoughts about the future of AI in healthcare or lessons from the medication pass controversy!
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Speaker 1:Welcome in. This is your Wakanda RN. So once again we're solo, but it's all good though. So I ain't gonna waste y'all's time, man. Let's go ahead and get started with today's episode.
Speaker 1:So, starting right off the bat, if you are within healthcare, you're within nursing world. I'm pretty sure by now you have heard or seen about the nurse that was on live via TikTok and was doing a med pass. That is not an exaggeration. That's exactly what happened, okay. So for some of you who may not be within the loop, let me go ahead and just let you know how this happened, what transpired. You know community thoughts and my thoughts, right.
Speaker 1:So she was doing a med pass. Live looks like at a long-term care facility, okay, and she had, I know, at the least 50 people on her life. It could have been more. I think at one point it got in the hundreds, but it was. It was quite a bit of people. I don't know how many followers that she currently has or whatever the case may be, but anyway, she had quite a bit of people within her, her life, and so she was explaining that she was doing a med pass and, right off the bat, people were having their back and forth. People were saying that you know, you shouldn't be on live right now during a med pass. You're violating, you're violating HIPAA, right. And so she was like you're violating HIPAA, right? And so she was like no, I'm not showing any patient information, I'm fine, okay. And so she continued on during her med pass. There was a point in her med pass. She decided to say a patient's name. She did decide to say a patient's name during the med pass, and so that is a no-no. Okay, so let's go ahead and get that out the way. That's, you can't do that. But that wasn't the only alarming thing. Um, yeah, people in her comments that were trying to tell her to stop, she would not stop and she wouldn't take advice from anybody else during her her live feed.
Speaker 1:Um, and then she also was doing a few other things that were red flag or, you know, not worth doing. For example, right, she had a, a lidocaine patch that she tore off with her teeth. Okay, another big no. No, she's also caught during a med error or medication error. Um, she gave a, a medication, at the wrong time and she said, oh, no, it was good, no, it's not good. You know, right dose, right time, right patient, right medication. I mean, go through all your rights. And I believe the medication was scheduled for the morning and she didn't give it in the evening Still med error. So she was trying to say like, oh no, it's the right med, but oh no, it's the right med, but it's the wrong time. So if it's the wrong time, it's still technically considered a medication error. So you had that going on right. The med pass continues. And she also.
Speaker 1:There was a point during her life that she was gossiping about her c Okay. There's already enough war going on between nurses and and aides, so that the last thing you want is to gossip on your aides, especially on live Okay and um. So there's a point to where she takes a break. She steps outside, she's checking her live feed and she's cursing out people that are trying to correct her. There's people that are actually trying to help her and she's cussing them out. She's checking her live feed and she's cursing out people that are trying to correct her. There's people that are actually trying to help her. She's cussing them out. She's blocking people. And then you got people that were supporting this particular nurse and I'm about to get on to that too. So A lot of content creators chimed in on this.
Speaker 1:A lot of content creators I mean from. I mean from from my community. You know APRN Beauty Con Dallas. You know Trauma Nurse Content Creator, a Blessed RN. You know people are. These are people who are more so in my circle and y'all circle. Y'all may know people more like Nurse Blake. Nurse Blake has already chimed in on this, made a video about it. Somebody might correct me if I'm wrong here, but was it Nurse Mike? I think it's Nurse Mike, right, chimed in on that as well. So those are more of your guys' circles, that if you watch that type of content. But I know there are bigger content creators that have chimed in on this, and then other people as well, content creators have chimed in, they've given their opinions and so, and then other people as well, content creators have chimed in, they've given their opinions, and so I think I think the general consensus from what I have seen is nobody is thrilled about what happened, right, no-transcript employment and all that Like.
Speaker 1:I'm not trying to like bash the person, because my thing is I want people to learn from other people's mistakes. That's the best way you can learn. You can say the best way to learn is by your own mistakes. I say the best way to learn is by learning from other people's mistakes so you don't repeat what they do. You know why go through that pain and suffering if somebody else has already done it and you can just learn from it. Ok, so this is really going to help new nurses. This is going to help student nurses, because this garnered so much attention. Now it's bad for the family of this particular resident, it's bad for that particular facility, obviously because that's embarrassing, and so you have those things going on.
Speaker 1:Now let's go to some of my personal thoughts. I've already had a couple of videos regarding this particular issue on my own personal channel, okay, and so I've already discussed some of these things. I'm just going a little bit more detail because obviously this is a better platform for that. So there have been.
Speaker 1:I didn't call out, but I basically pointed out the hypocrisy of another nurse that was recording herself at work talking about the nurse who was doing a MedPass live at work, about the nurse who was doing a MedPass live at work. And so I have foolish people come in my video and say that well, the difference is, well, she's not doing all of these. She's not, you know, giving medication errors, talking about people, and she's not breaking HIPAA. Da da, da, da, da, da, da da da, trying to defend a Southern nurse, and you know, let's not do that. The correct answer is both parties should not record themselves at work. Let's not make this what it is.
Speaker 1:I think I know where this was going and I need people to stop with this. Like it's not a black and white thing. I think some people who are used to trying to race bait there's people who are used to trying to, you know, point out white and black issues. It's not a white and black issue. This is a right and wrong thing. Ok, because the person that the person that did the Med Pass error yes, she was black, ok, but then the person that recorded at least from what I my particular video that I caught this particular nurse who was white and you know recorded somebody that was black or, excuse me, you know was talking about the person that was black during the Med Pass. I didn't make it about that, but you could tell by the things, the way they were said, the undertones and people that were supporting.
Speaker 1:I'm like OK, I see where this is going and so I'm letting you know right now I don't allow that stuff on my channel. You know, I'll let you say your thought. I'll let you say your thought, I'll let you say an initial thought. You know what I'm saying. But I don't want that stuff going around because in health care, I'm trying to promote unity. Within health care, I'm trying to promote unity. I want people to get better. I want people learn from people's mistakes, regardless where you come from. Your religion, race, creed doesn't matter. I want you to learn. I want you to be, to grow and be unified. Ok, so whether you're Sarah that's recording or Quisha over here that's recording, it don't matter to me. Like, I want people to do better and get better. So let's not do that. Let's not do that. We're not going to do that on my channel.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to promote unity here, but I'm also I'm pointing out the hypocrisy, because nurses don't need to be recording themselves at work and I know some of you are going to be mad listening to this because that's what you do. But guess what? The algorithm of things have evolved to a point to where that's what people think other people want. And let me tell you something too Other people have gotten away with it right. Other people have gotten away with it. They've gotten away with it. They seem like their favorite content creators recording themselves at work, and so they think they can do so.
Speaker 1:I can go all the way back to um. There's a, there's some I can't remember his name, bro, but I know nurse blake was using green screen and a lot of his stuff. You know what I'm saying. And look where he is now and I don't know. I haven't seen every nurse blake video. So some people may be like, oh no, no, no, he recorded at work, but the ones that I seen, I didn't see every video, the ones I saw. He wasn't doing that, um. And then there's another content creator I want to say he was ER tech and now he does a lot of comedic stuff. Comedic stuff, excuse me, I remember watching a lot of his stuff in 2020. And is it Stevie? I'm not. You know, I'm not going to try to get it wrong, but he was using green screen Right, pretending that he was doing these skits and scenarios at an emergency department when he wasn't Right. So you people need to do the same Right. If you want to green screen, that's a good suggestion.
Speaker 1:If you want to make health care content. You might want to give disclaimer in your content saying that you know I'm on my break or came in my day off. I got permission from my facility because some of y'all man, y'all just out here just being wild and like I'm just going to hit record and whatever happens happens, and I think some of it can be seen in a positive light because I think some of some of it is seen like OK, we have heightened awareness of you know, some of the personalities of the nurses and health care staff that we currently have. You know, I'm saying and you kind of see some day to day life activities, but y'all need to be very careful. I know some of you have great visuals, some of you have great personalities, some of you may need to go more into like that beauty.
Speaker 1:You know care type content, but not necessarily make it about nursing, cause some of y'all are really good at what you do. You just need to tweak that a little bit because let me tell you something no matter what on the outside looking in the general public, it's always going to look down. I know some of you probably was like what, who do we care about? Why don't we care about the general public. Well, if we want things done for us in the future, that's something that matters. Optic matters. We are in a field to where, no matter how you want to slice it and dice it, that's not going to change about how people feel about nurses, because, guess what, we're looked at as this hospitality type field, right, and we're supposed to come in with humility and all that stuff. And sometimes, if, especially, we want things done for us, especially legally, legislation wise, I mean, sometimes those optics does matter.
Speaker 1:So I think there's a time, place and space in terms of content creation, just not necessarily at work, right, I'm just going to leave it right there. You know what I'm saying. Y'all going to chime in and say what I want to say, but I'm just a person on the outside looking in, excuse me, I'm on the inside, I'm trying to look out, pardon me. So you know what I'm saying. So that's my thoughts regarding, you know, this nurse, this med pass and all that man. So be careful, be careful If Be careful if you're new, be careful. If you've been doing this, stop. But also be careful, because I don't want you to lose your license. I don't want you to appear before your board of nursing. I have to explain everything Right, because the board of nursing, they're the ones who are going to determine whether or not like OK, well, they can keep their license or not. Well, this is worth it, this wasn't worth it. So they're going to make that final judgment. So we'll just don't put yourself in that particular situation. So there's that.
Speaker 1:All right, y'all, let's talk about some other things. Man, it's kind of. It's kind of crazy man. This is an interesting world we're living in today. The first thing I want to discuss and or talk about is this let's see here, it is the first AI hospital in China. It is the first AI hospital in China, the first AI hospital in China. So China announces the world's first AI hospital, marketing Asia's leadership in health care innovation. It's crazy just the more I'm looking at this. So a health care transformation in the heart of Asia, asia in the heart of Asia. Asian hospital, much like Stanford's AI town that garnered global attention last year, demonstrate China's leadership in the fusion of AI and healthcare, capable of diagnosing and treating over a thousand patients a day, just in a few days. 10,000 patients a day, just in a few days a task that would take human doctors two years, these AI doctors have achieved 93.0.6 accuracy rate On the MedQA dataset. Their proficiency in simulating the entire practice, improving patient outcomes and offering a risk free training environment for medical students that is insane. That is insane. It's kind of cool, though, but it's also pretty insane too. Asia is merging as a global hub for innovation, ai and medtech. Asian Hospital is a prime example of how AI-driven healthcare solutions are enhancing medical efficiency and revolutionizing healthcare delivery. These advancements also highlight new opportunities for medical education, healthcare logistics, which have the potential to influence global hospital management models.
Speaker 1:So yeah, man, it's going to be interesting, and it goes on and on and on. So you guys can check this out. This is. You just put it into chat, gpt or whatever. It gets pretty cool. So, right off the bat, right off the bat and some of you have already known. If you listen to anything AI, this shouldn't be anything surprising to any of you whatsoever. It shouldn't be surprising. Now, I think what was also shocking to me is that they treated over 10,000 patients in a few days 10,000 patients with a 93 percent accuracy. So what is that going to look like for the future of health care? Who knows? Who knows Really? Is it any surprise that China is doing it first? To me, it's no surprise whatsoever, because if you, I mean, just think about this man. I mean, do I think that in the right now that we're going to see replacement in nurses and things like that? I absolutely not. But do I think it's beneficial for nurses and doctors to try to come up with their own innovation? Absolutely Do. I think it's time to push the envelope, to push the limits on the human limits? I think so because, if you think about it, this is something that's going to be coming. I know I talked about it a few months ago that I think it was in Arizona. I believe that they wanted to pass a bill allowing prescriptions to, um, like you had an AI pharmacist, pretty much. So these things are going to be coming.
Speaker 1:I do feel for people in healthcare that you imagine you go to school all these years, right, you're a pharmacist, you become a doctor, and then you're told that, oh, we're going to save a buck because we have AI now. Can you imagine that? That to me, that is very wild. I can see the use in terms of like, at least immediate how to talk about medical students. I think it'd be cool to watch that from a medical student's perspective, it'd be cool in that regard. But it's not cool because, can you think about it? You're watching. I could think about you're a med student, you're even a nursing student, right, and you're watching ai do your job at a much faster rate in terms of you know you, you do, like, let's say, you do a head to toe assessment and AI can just gather the information like that, like what a scan or something.
Speaker 1:It is gathered information you know. Or you put in, like your patient history, you put in like what you're here for your chief complaint, like, let's say, I don't know, you do that yourself, and then so the AI robot will generate your whole treatment plan, your whole care plan. Like we're not even talking about just Doctors and we're not talking about doctors, we're not talking about just nurses, we're talking about all the way down, we're talking about case management, we're talking about PT, ot, we're talking about I mean it just goes. It's a whole trickle down effect. Man, you know we're talking about MDS, you know. You think about it, you know the medical data, medical data sheets, personnel, like you know. Just think about that MDS. So it gets real tricky because it's a real trickle down effect. It's not just doctors, it's not just nurses, like it affects the whole interdisciplinary team that I will be put in place.
Speaker 1:For Now, the thing that I think separates the AIs right now more so than anything from a human being is obviously that TLC, that tender love and care, that empathy aspect, the sympathy aspect. I mean that's what you want especially, let's say that you're hospitalized for many, many days and, yes, maybe they can come up with the accurate treatment plan, they can come up with the best treatment plan, but you still want a human being to provide that care for you, because human beings need other human beings, we need each other Right. So that's the thing I think I want people to definitely focus on. I think human beings to focus on how can I use AI to be better at their profession right now. I think, instead of people being scared about is AI going to take my job, is AI going to take this, I think the right mindset is to is to have is how can I utilize AI right now to be the most valuable person I can be at my current place of employment, or how can I use AI to get a step up? Can I move up the chain. Can I move up the ladder? You know what I'm saying. Like, I think people should be focused on creativity during this time. Don't be scared of AI. Just figure out how to best use AI, if that makes sense. And, of course, of course. Of course I was briefly talking about you know prescriptions and all that, so let's go to you know what I'm saying. I want to talk about let's see, let's see, let's talk about Walgreens, walgreens, walgreens. So it turns out, walgreens turns to robots to fill prescriptions as pharmacists take on more responsibilities.
Speaker 1:This article published by CNBC, and so here we go, some key points. Walgreens boots Alliance is opening up robot-powered micro-fulfillment centers across the US to fill customers' prescriptions as the roles of stores and pharmacists change. The drugstore chain plans to open 22 facilities across the country by 2025,. As much as half of Walgreens' total prescription volume could be filled at automatic hubs, says Rick swords, who oversees the work of facilities as Walgreens group president of centralized services operations and planning. So, so pretty close to home for me. So this article is North Lake, north Lake, texas, and it's talking about inside a large facility in the Dallas area. They fill thousands of prescriptions for customers who take on medications to manage or treat high blood pressure, diabetes or other conditions. Each robot can fill 300 prescriptions in an hour. The company said roughly the same number where a typical Walgreens pharmacy with a handful of staff may do in a day. Think about that, man. That's crazy, let's see. So the Walgreens Boots Alliance has opened up the automatic central hubs to stay relevant as online pharmacies siphon off of sales and more customers have items from toilet paper to toothpaste delivered to their doorstep.
Speaker 1:The global health crisis has also heightened the demand for pharmacists, as hospitals and drugstores hire them to administer COVID vaccines and tests. So that has forced Walgreens and its competitors, cvs, health, right Aid, to rethink the role of their stores and pharmacists, and so it goes on and on. You guys will be able to read this and kind of get your thoughts, but basically, the AI robots. These robots are able to basically speed up the work. They're able to speed up the work. So this is also pretty crazy. They're able to speed up the work. You know what I'm saying? Fill up what one robot can fill up 300 prescriptions in a day. I mean you got. I'm just telling you, man, like it really gets rid of the need for pharmacy tech. So some of you may not know, you have pharmacy techs that work within these pharmacies and you know they help with these. You know medications right, so it kind of helps eliminate the need for pharmacy techs.
Speaker 1:They're talking about keeping up the fast pace of the industry, which it ties into a lot, right, but if you think about it like this, the pharmaceutical company would not be as it wouldn't be what it is if individuals were healthier. Think about it. Think about it. They talked about blood pressure, diabetes, all these things Right, which I know more people are genetically, you know, aware more people are genetically prone Right To to these type of disease processes. But however, I mean, if you think about it, man, which I know, I was reading something about, ozempic and these fat loss drugs were causing people to, I guess, like the national diabetes percentages were starting to drop a little bit for the first time. But just think about like how much if people actually had a proper sleep cycle, they were properly hydrated, they had a proper workout regimen, right, and realizing just getting that weight off will actually just help get rid of some of these disease process that they have or at least keep them at bay to where they don't need as many medications. I mean, think about it like this If you could get off some of you probably listening right now, you probably have a polypharmacy.
Speaker 1:Right now, you have a whole list of medications that you take right now. Just think how you would feel if you got off half those medications, or, let's say, you only take one-fourth of those medications. So, if you're listening, I'm challenging you to be healthy, because all we're doing right now is helping to fill the pockets of these pharmaceutical companies. I mean, literally, they're making money off of people's health. I know some people can't help it there's some disease processes like they literally can't help but I think a big majority of us can help this out.
Speaker 1:There's a little food for thought, just a little food for thought. You know, a little pun intended. A little food for thought. So yeah, man, once again, ai robots. They ain't going nowhere. They ain't going nowhere. They're here to stay. Oh, but what are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about it? That's the question. What are we going to do about it? You know what I'm saying? Don't let tough times carry you down. Don't let tough times carry you down. Don't let tough times bring you down. Don't let the thought of this scare. You. Do what you can while you can. That's what I do. Do what you can while you can.
Speaker 1:Some of you probably already knew this information. Some of you, this is brand spanking new, so I had to bring this information to you. But I'm curious to know, man, please let me know what you think. Please chime in on this, on this, on this episode, chime in on these videos. Let me know what do you think? You know, what you think about how robots fill in prescriptions. You know I'm saying, and that's supposed to be on the increase, we're gonna see more of these in united states, more of these, probably, globally. You know, let me know.
Speaker 1:What do you think about ai hospital? It seemed like something that science fiction, but it's here now. What do you? What do you think about that? What do you think about that? Would you rather have a human being taking care of you or do you care that the terminator is coming in and you know taking? You know basically just gathering your information and generating a type of care plan? I mean, yeah, yeah, let me know. You know what I'm saying. And for my young nurses and my nursing students, you know what's learned from other people's mistakes. You know you worked very hard for your license. You worked very hard to get to where you're at. I want you to keep your license. Please keep your license. Please keep your license.
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