[Histonet] RE: working on Saturday

[Marcum, Pamela A]

We do have someone come in on Saturday for half a day.  We have an average of 35 bone marrows a day and getting them cut and ready on Saturday is what we have to do to make Monday work.  This is a teaching hospital and the residents love to submit everything but the kitchen sink on Fridays and Saturday mornings.  We also have GI and Gyn clinics on Friday and the biopsy load goes up along with routine surgicals so Mondays can be very heavy.  The person working the half day Saturday can pick day during the week to leave early.  We have the same person on call for the week to cover RUSH transplant biopsies.  (They rarely have to come in however; we still have to cover if needed.)  The on call person answers any problems with processors or other issues.  When we are full staff the cover is every fifth week, so it is not too bad.  I cover for any open spaces or health issues.  They prefer the supervisor not take call to avoid overtime.  

Pam Marcum
UAMS

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From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Terri Braud
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 8:17 AM
To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] RE: working on Saturday

We are a 242 bed hospital with a very active maternity unit and a huge women's health service.  We get approx 10,000 cases/year. We find no advantage to working on Saturdays with the exception of a STAT cytology for an inhouse patient. Also, with the new recommended fixation times for breasts, we no longer even have one person for that little bit of Saturday coverage.
There was not one peep from any physicians.  Even when I used to manage a hospital lab twice the size, we did not cover Saturdays. 

Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP)
Anatomic Pathology Supervisor
Holy Redeemer Hospital Laboratory
1648 Huntingdon Pike
Meadowbrook, PA 19046

   1. Working on Saturday (Smallwood, Lorraine)
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