[Histonet] RE: log book

[Joanne Clark]

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Hi Kathy, we are a small private lab who has the contract with the local
hospital.  What we have is a log book in the O.R. where the nurses have
to enter the specimens for pick up; our courier than signs off on the
log in the O.R. that he/she has picked up the specimen.  Each specimen
is checked against the log before being transported to the lab.  That
way, if a specimen is missing, it can be taken up with the O.R. staff
immediately.  Hope that is helpful to you.

Joanne Clark, HT
Histology Supervisor
Pathology Consultants of New Mexico

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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:15:47 -0800
From: "Kathy Gorham" <gorhamk <@t> verizon.net>
Subject: [Histonet] log book
To: <histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
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Good Monday Morning,  We had a serious incident Friday with O.R.  My
aide went down to get the specimens from O.R. about 9am. (which were
left overs from the night before).  She did not stamp in the specimens
before she left.  When I had time to stamp them in and record them in
the log book I discovered that the colon was not there.  Two other
specimens from that patient where in the bag but no colon.  So I went
down to O.R. to see where it was.  Of course no one knows what happened
to the colon.  The doctors are furious by all means.  Now the O.R.
thinks the path lab screwed up.  So my questions is how do others log in
the specimens as they come into the lab.  We have 2 couriers that brings
specimens when we are not in the lab from other hospitals.  How do you
make sure that whom ever brings the specimens actually brings the ones
they say they do?  Do you have a log book that every specimen that is
brought into the lab is written down by the person who brings it in?
Right now we have a log book but it is written in as we are accessing
the specimens.  So the specimens may have been there overnight. We are a
very small lab and we do almost everything by hand including writing in
the log book.  Someday we want to be able to scan by bar codes but right
now we can not do that. Thanks for any help you can give me. 
Kathy Gorham, H.T.

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