[Histonet] Assisting with Autopsies

[Bauer, Karen L.]

Hi Amy,

We do about the same number of autopsies per year... Only on in-house
patients and they have to be physician requested, no family requested.

We used to hire a diener to come and do them and the techs would assist.
None of the techs cared to do that, so I usually volunteered, since I
actually like doing them.

Eventually, the docs decided to just train me and now I'm the hospital
diener.  It was a lot easier to have a full time employee around to do
them than try to have an outsider come in once in a while.  Easier to
keep up on competencies, vacation times and such.  Before, if the diener
was on vacation, there was no one else to do them.  The docs were not
happy when they had to do it themselves.  :)

Karen

Karen L. Bauer HTL/HT (ASCP)
Histology Supervisor
Pathology Department
Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire
E-mail:   bauer.karen <@t> mayo.edu
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Mayo Clinic Health System
1221 Whipple St.
Eau Claire, WI 54703
www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org

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Subject: [Histonet] Assisting with Autopsies 

Hello All,

We are small hospital that does approximately 5-10 autopsies a year.
This being said our administration department does not want to hire a
diener to assist with these autopsies. So I have decided to turn to all
of you out there in histoland for a little poll.

Does your facility use histotechs or a diener to assist with the
autopsy?


Thanks in advance for all of your help, Amy


Amy Self
Georgetown Hospital System
843-527-7179
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