Editing question

[justcarol67]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "kemper" <kempermentor at ...> wrote:
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> > Carol:
> > The sentence in question is "A fall, like a medication error, is a systems issue." Would "A fall, like a medication error, is the responsibility of the whole staff, not just the clinician in charge of the patient" work? 
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> Kemper:
> No, because a medication error is not the responsibility of the whole staff.  It's the responsibility of the person dispensing the med.
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> My understanding of what the nurse is attempting to state is this:
> A fall, like a medication error, is a problem with the policies and/or procedures of the organization/nursing home.
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> Kemper
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Carol again:
Thanks. I think that is more or less what she's trying to say but saying that a fall is a problem with procedures isn't all that clear, either. Certainly, falls aren't *caused by* policies or procedures although maybe the failure to implement some policy or procedure contributed in some way to the fall. I think she means that it's the job of the whole staff to prevent falls and to "manage" them when they occur (by which she means report them and investigate them as well as follow up with the patient who fell). I think my best bet is just to query and let the author revise the sentence as best she can.

Carol, wishing that language were a precision tool