[Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks
Tim Higgins
higginst <@t> amapath.com
Fri Oct 8 13:10:27 CDT 2010
Glad I never worked at that lab, never would have made to a supervisory
role.
I have to agree with Sarah, two infractions in a 12 month period is
extremely severe. I don't care if you have Vantage or any one of the million
tracking software packages out there. Especially with the shortage of
qualified Histotechs out there to be so picky is not good. Anyone that has
worked for a busy Histology lab knows mistakes happen, we all want them
caught prior to going out but there are so many areas that these mistakes
can happen.
We do have a policy on mislabeled slides (or any infraction), there is a
verbal warning, written warning, final warning and then if it happens again
we would go to more of an extreme conclusion. That being said, we also
would go over with them how the mistake happened, ways to avoid that type of
mistake and then track that employee's slides more closely.
Now if an employee made the first mistake in January and the 4th one in
December of that same year I am still not sure we would dismiss that person.
Especially if than employee in good standing, maybe there are extenuating
circumstances going on.
Two and out is pretty severe.
Just my two cents!
Thanks,
Timothy Higgins, HT(ASCP) QIHC
Histology Manager
APA
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Subject: RE: [Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks
Holy cow man!! Fired for mislabeling 2 times in 260 days!!&=bsp;
Have you never been human and made a mistake?! I could understa=d
if it was a tech on a regular basis messing up, but that seems a
little =razy, especially if you are in a high volume hospital!!
WOW!!
Just my opinion...
Sarah Goebel, B.A., HT (ASCP)
<=iv>
Histo=echnician
XBiotech USA Inc.
8201 East Rivers=de Dr. Bldg 4 Suite 100
Austin, Texas 78744
(512)386-5107
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Subject: RE: [Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks
From: "Mahoney,Janice A" <[1]=anice.Mahoney <@t> alegent.org>
Date: Fri, October 08, 2010 9:40 am
To: Amy Farnan <[2]Farnana <@t> nehealth=com>,
"[3]histonet <@t> lists.utsout= hwestern.edu" <[4]
histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
Cc: "Dean, Sherry" <[5]she=ry.dean <@t> ventana.roche.com>
I'd be happy to share mine but it is very strict. People are given a
final=written warning for the first mislabel not caught in the
department and ca= be fired for the second within a year.
I highly suggest the Ventana Vantage (there are others but in my
opinion Va=tage is the best) bar code system for patient safety. It
also relieves th= stress on your Histo techs because the bar coding
helps them assure they =ave the correct slide, block, etc. Techs are
hard to find and if we start=iring for inevitable human error we
will cause even more tech shortages.<=r> When you look at all the
costs that a mislabel can incur, (law suits, repla=ing personnel,
rework, etc.) the cost of the software is not too bad.
Janice Mahoney HT(ASCP)
Histology/Cytology Coordinator
Alegent Health Laboratory
4955 F Street
Omaha, NE
(402)717-2889
fax(402)717-5231
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Subject: [Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks
Hello everyone,
I was wondering if you could share your policy for employee
infractions of =islabeling blocks and slides? I would like to get an
idea of what the stan=dard is out there. Any help would be
appreciated.
Thank you
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