Janet is especially busy because one of her colleagues called out sick, and she needs to collect blood samples for four patients. She collects one sample, and before she gets a chance to label it, she is called to help with another patient who is having an emergency. Janet places the unlabeled specimen on the nurse's station with a sticky note nearby indicating the patient's name.
When Janet later returns to the nurse's station, she discovers several unlabeled vials of blood and no sticky note. She realizes that another nurse on the unit is obtaining blood samples from his patients and was also called away. Now, both nurses have no idea which vials belong to which patients.
What about this scenario makes an adverse event likely to occur?
(A) Competing priorities
(C) Staffing issues
(D) Time-sensitive care
(E) All of the above