Everything posted by Cliff
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Procedure manuals
Our paper manuals are almost gone, but we have something similar to you. Each SOP has it's initial approvals documents on the last page, then we have an annual sign off sheet for each SOP. We switched to every two years for a brief period, only to learn that our DPH requires every year.
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First AABB inspection
I've been through 7 or 8 now. My first was terrifying, now I'm OK with it. Between AABB, TJC, FDA, FACT, DPH and any other acronym you can mention, I've been through a lot of inspections / surveys / assessments. I do find AABB to be wildly inconsistent. I suppose that is part of the nature of peer assessors, but until this last assessment, we have always had an AABB employee as the lead. It really feels like they can't leave unless they find something. Rarely it's significant, often several small / trivial non-conformances, but never none. Our TJC and FDA are almost always without citations. FACT, we might get one small ding (they are ruthless if you've never had one). We've even had AABB, FDA and TJC in the same year. TJC = clean, FDA = clean, AABB = 20 non-conformances.
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SBB AABB review
How did you do on the BB? I took mine so long ago I suspect I have forgotten most of what I learned. I didn't take the BB, I took the MT, so I don't have a reference, but I'd suspect the SBB is a lot harder. You'll do fine. Remember, most people do not pass. If you fail, learn why and pass the next time.
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Transfusion Practice Guidelines App
Wow, ARC has a lot of apps, they are located here.
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Retirement
Awww, thanks. We're a hard habit to break, you'll still be here.
- Blood Bank Refrigerator Validation
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Symposium to Celebrate the Careers of Prof. Marion Scott and Dr. Geoff Daniels.
Actually, you had no option but failure. You could no longer edit the images. I just changed your permissions so there is no time limit on how long you can make edits. It's up to you if you want to try. There should be a "Manage Image" button next to each image now.
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Symposium to Celebrate the Careers of Prof. Marion Scott and Dr. Geoff Daniels.
http://www.pathlabtalk.com/forum/index.php?/gallery/album/8-blood-transfusion-royalty-at-the-one-day-symposium-in-bristol-to-celebrate-the-working-lives-of-prof-marion-scott-and-dr-geoff-daniels/
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Data Loggers Recording Intervals
I suggest you consider what you are doing with the data logger. When we validate coolers we set ours to every minute. Our Rees system that monitors about 100 fridges and freezers is set to every 4 hours. Clearly a large difference, but both are doing what is needed for the purpose.
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SBB Exam
Mine was back in the easy days, which I think are similar to now. My plan was pretty simple: Memorized Standards Memorized blood related CFRs Read the Technical manual twice (once was the two days prior to the test) Read Transfusion cover to cover for about 1 year Read Harmening's hematology book, not her blood bank book Started to read Isset, but my brain almost exploded Took the test on a computer, this was pretty new back then. Only a 100 questions down from the 200+ questions on the paper test, and clearly the wet work was long retired. From what I was told by the "old timers", the paper test was pretty hard. I heard a typical question went something like Question Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Choices 1. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 2. blah blah blah blah 3. blah blah blah blah blah blah 4. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 5. blah blah 6. blah blah blah blah 7. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Answer - select one a. 1, 2, 4 b. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 c. 1, 3, 6 d. 4, 7 e. 3, 5, 6 From what I heard there were a lot of multiple multiple choice questions and the possible answers were always a - e. My test only had a - d, so it was a 25% chance of guessing the right answer.
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