Something I've personally seen when I was doing my EMT clinicals was a geriatric stroke patient came in (time is key here), and staff struggling to get the anticoagulants and another medicine I can't remember (but an important part of the stroke treatment protocol) from the machine in time - which they ended up not being able to do, as no one was around who had the countersigning authority in time.

Which was at that point past the time the patient really needed it. They still got it, and who knows if it was the deciding factor or not for the patient. The stent they later tried to install also failed during installation after a rather large dose of radiation to the patient, so it was unfortunately just not their day.

It was a sad situation all the way around.

A lot of these processes are designed as CYA/risk aversion methods (which make sense from that perspective), but then also have the unstated goal of allowing cutting already overworked staff to the bone. And have the secondary effect of having people get even more exhausted, and make even more dumb mistakes, and also get blocked when it is a legitimate need by a process/approval. Though admin's ass is covered (as long as no one thinks about it too much), since the staff had to bypass a bunch of safeguards before it blew up.

Missing in the press release or indictment of the staff member though is that EVERYONE had to bypass the safeguards all the time because of the sick system they were in.

The only real way to address this (IMO) is to tackle the internal structural problems causing massive overwork and lack of staffing in the medical field. Good luck with that though.