Perhaps in supplement to paper, ALSO have them accessable in shared computer drive format.  This way, they can be searchable as well as cross referenced and linked - almost like a "Web" of procedures.   For example - If the Potassium procedure refers to the call policy for a critical/hemolysed/unacceptable sample, you could ...

FLU (A, B, H1N1, etc...) cannot be accurately detected - even if the Pope himself blessed the wire swab - if the sample isn't collected properly.  I have asked countless times to those who collect them how they collected the sample, only for the wrong answer to be returned.  Many of the people collecting these samples cannot pronounce ...

Follow your company's disciplinary (insubordination) policy...  Inform them that policy and procedures are setup in such a manner that your facility has developed them to be either more efficient, less error producing, for sample integrity, paper trail throughput..  etc.. Document, document, and document.  make accurate notes on ...

I do agree if more open forums were available and open speech was encouraged I think more cound be aired and perhaps (gasp!) progress could be made.   Surveys are as exactly as you described.  Data for number crunchers to sit at their desks and figure out a way to polish them up and make the data look pretty enough to present to the ...

What I was getting at was how many employees in many different workplaces (not just lab) waste company time on any website other than ones that they need to complete their job tasks.  %0d%0a%0d%0aI wish we had access to those sites (for those of us who do not have an internet login) for clinical purposes.  I don't know how many times it ...

I fully support organization's reasons for blocking internet access to not only social networking sites, but to anything unnecessary to performing their work description in general. Our work computers, when singing on, inform you of your basic rights and the fact that you can and will be spied on and anything you send or receive can and will be ...

I will place myself Pre-Millenial, Pre-Y .. more like a Gen-X'er.   I see and sympathize with the younger age generations with the lack of efficiency of today's current and common chain of commanders.  They are a generation of fast and now.  Instant information, instant responses; news, weather and Google at their fingertips. What ...

In discussion of TAT, irregardless of how whoever measures it by whatever parameters..  have other factors been taken into account as to what can affect it? Big one - Staffing and times of day measured.  Obviously peak analytical times (morning run, off site drop offs, lunch/dinnertime and such..) can be taken into account as far as to ...

The scary thing, in addition to the ones that are caught, are the ones that AREN'T caught!!   I wonder how many go by each day from outpatient sites, nurse draws, nursing home draws, phleb draws and especially ED draws that are mislabeled that we don't catch because they may not flag, delta check or cross our benches as 'suspicious'.   ...

Sorry doc..  I am not putting my license at risk to merely produce numbers to appease your demands. I also vehemently refuse when a nurse demands when we do so.  Whether it be a short blue top, a purple poured into a gold top or a clotted CBC..     Yeah right..  Redraw it properly and I will give you accurate results, ...