[Emergency Transfusion O pos or O neg?]

o neg blood can be given to o pos patients irregardless of their age in cases where there is no available o pos blood.

[What are we worth?]

usually when you are promoted to a new position there will always be a corresponding salary increase that goes with the position. Just weigh the pros and cons. well, its a challenge for you and an opportunity to wider your areas and test your supervisory skills. go!

[Just For Fun]

i just want to share this one though its not really funny.

a hospital's staff called up the blood center asking if our blood center has ffp stock. when we replied that we have. they automatically asked if it is fresh or "how many days old?" This always happened for prbc and whole blood even on cs patients.

[Opinions of non working BB techs supervising and reviewing your work]

After getting a lot of great input and some bashing about how I should NOT criticize my superiors-which will not do here the opinion I seek is the following:

Should a person NOT actively working the bench be allowed to review and approve a tech's work?

You may have book knowledge but your hand's on experience is not there. I sort of present another scenario would you want a doctor that hasnt operated in 5 years supervising a new surgeon or a person that owns a car repair shop that was a mechanic and reads the latest and greatest but hasnt worked on any new model car in 5 years repair your brand new newest car model?

I feel current 'hands on" knowledge can far exceed "book knowledge".

i think they can review your work if for the past years they have been in your area. Just give them a chance first however if thier opinion deviates then you can quaetion them.