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Cliff

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  1. A site satisfaction survey was emailed to all members this morning.

    To receive notifications from the site, ensure you have opted in for Newsletters here.

    If you'd like to take the survey but did not receive an email, please message me, and I'll get it out to you.

    The goal for this month's challenge is to get at least 50 responses.  I will post the survey results here (anonymously, of course).

    Thank you!

  2. 31 minutes ago, REN_NH said:

    Does anyone have a flowchart for the workup of cold-reactive antibodies? I'm a Generalist using GEL BT, and GEL anti-IgG with tube IS XM and feedback on this is much appreciated as I am also working on updating policies.

    I attached a few SOPs and a flowchart.

    Please let me know if you need other items.

    E-1-5_Identifying Cold Antibodies.docxE-4-6_Cold Autoadsorption.docxE-4-5_Cold Absorption Using RESt®.docxE-10-3_Cold Antibody Workup Process Flow.docx

  3. On 1/26/2024 at 10:50 AM, Malcolm Needs said:

    I'm sorry, but I just don't believe the member who says they are 122 (Oh, I dunno though - I've just looked in the mirror!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).

    or 12.  :)

    As I mentioned, it is imperfect data, but overall, I think it likely reflects our staffing ages.

  4. This is a chart of our members by age.

    It only includes those who gave a year of birth and are not banned members.  That came to 6,920 people.  There is no data validation on this; some people may have filled in just anything or mistakenly entered incorrect data.  With this large volume of data, the few stray values are likely nullified by the people who want to provide correct data.

     

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  5. Great idea, working on it now.

    I have so many thoughts on this. 

    When I was in the hospital, we had several agencies we worked with.  They rarely had any candidates for us.  I'm not talking good candidates, I'm talking any candidates.

    Last year, I went to a conference where someone from the state (Tennessee) talked about different healthcare fields, the projected need, and the projected supply (of staff) rate.  For all fields, the need was higher than the supply.  For all fields (except one) the need and the supply eventually met - maybe in 1 year, maybe in 5.  For med techs, the need continued to climb over the years, and the supply of staff went in the opposite direction.  They never met.

    Med techs are not paid a fair wage.  We need to go to school for 2 or 4 years, earn little to no respect, work in the basement, and are offered poor pay and benefits compared to people with similar educations.  It's hard to fill these jobs.

    When I was in the hospital, my lab had 45 FTEs.  We had about a 20% vacancy for years.

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