MarioUSBloodBank

I received so many competency quizzes back with no name on them that I decided this year that the first question would be "What is your Name?"  I got that from my 7th grade science teacher who's goal was that everyone would get at least one answer correct.  When the quiz was done, we would grade each other's papers in class and one day I had to ask if I should count off for mispelling the name.  My teacher was aghast!  Someone actually spelled his own name wrong.  So far I haven't had that problem with my staff.

On that note, my wife thinks the word "globulin" is terribly disgusting. It freaks her out if I say it.

I hope he got an A+

I have a not-serious question on each of my med tech student quizzes. I thought I'd share a current student's response to "Describe in 80,000 words or less why immunohematology is by far the most interesting department in the lab." I usually get charming BS like "Because Phil is awesome!", but this guy got a little deeper:
 
"While not as engaging as Micro, Immuno, Heme or Molecular on the surface, Immunohematology (aka blood bank) is much more mentally taxing. It requires one to think through a process logically, using the tools at one's disposal in the metaphorical tool box, to produce a resulting reaction one can use to reason an answer to a medically potentially dangerous situation. On a theoretical level, this requirement leads to the utilization of the full extent of one's mental capacity, causing it to be psychologically fulfilling, and therefore the superior department of choice for the intellectual medical lab scientist. Also, the word agglutination is funny."

I've never heard of this, and several of our hospitals do not separate the plasma from the cells at all, so that there is no chance of mislabelling of the separated plasma samples.

We use Q-Pulse Ver 5.7. I agree with Malcolm. It is great from a manager's perspective. A bit painful to set up, but once up and running your work can be set to flag for the coming week / month or whatever tie you like. I am the administrator in the hospital for it and it can be tweaked to suit you (can set up templates). It takes the backbreak out of ver updating, approval and distribution and only one emergency copy of SOPs need to be kept - the rest is available electronically at all workstations wherever there is a PC. SOP review dates can also be set. It also has Audit, Customer, Training, CAPA, People (staff records), Suppliers, Assets and administration modules on it as well.
I personally love it. It has stopped my life becoming hell and has saved a number of trees already.
Cheers
Eoin

I know of no regulation preventing this, but I've always heard directed donations may not be as safe as other volunteer donors due to pressure to donate...I'd think this would be a similar situation, people will feel pressured to not tell the truth on the donor questionaire.

Yes. ABO discrepancy and positive antibody screen.
Once we had to wash pt. cell X4 with warm saline to get correct blood type.
Do not recall Dx...