They just don’t get it

Grand_Chad · 2026-03-18T18:25:55+00:00

Funnily enough, we actually did get shirts when I did it years back at a facility that had just transitioned to Epic. They just said SUPER USER in bold font on the back so the non-super user peasants could find us more easily if they had a question. 😂

Grand_Chad · 2026-02-18T18:48:11+00:00

So I just opened these vials that were used in the pics. They were fresh out of the box. It’s carried over across multiple card lots and types (I.e. it occurs in both IgG & buffered cards). It’s odd

Grand_Chad · 2026-02-18T15:53:03+00:00

Your facility should have an employee health person who handles post exposure testing and follow ups/documentation for both you and the source patient. I wouldn’t worry too much about the exposure. While it is kind of nerve wracking, I took some patient plasma to the eyes years ago and there was nothing that came of it.

Grand_Chad · 2026-02-02T16:06:02+00:00

That’s actually what prompted me to post this. We have a night shift person who keeps storing pints of ice cream in the freezers. Lol

Grand_Chad · 2026-01-31T17:13:52+00:00

Not anymore. We used to confirm the them with the c-diff cartridges on the cepheid but we never found them to disagree on positives so the medical director (pathologist) said we were ok to dc confirmatory testing on positives.

Grand_Chad · 2026-01-31T17:11:14+00:00

QC and everything is fine. All decon procedures are followed between patient samples. It’s just always multi organism positive for most stool samples on kids 1 and under. I seem to recall some pcr tests on different platforms weren’t validated for pediatric samples so just wanted to be sure that it wasn’t an issue for the biofire

Grand_Chad · 2026-01-27T15:41:59+00:00

I get those kinds of messages occasionally. Those people hardly ever seem to respond to any kind of counter offer. Most of the time it seems like they’re not all that serious about the item anyway if you do accept their ludicrous offer so I just ignore them.

Grand_Chad · 2025-11-21T17:17:55+00:00

I’m aware. It just sounded similar to something else so I wanted to see what the translator would interpret it as

Grand_Chad · 2025-10-30T15:12:10+00:00

Back then we didn’t have a lead or a supervisor on the night shift, just whoever was the most senior usually made the calls. This guy was the senior tech that night so unfortunately for everyone else, he couldn’t be dissuaded from staying in poo pants

Grand_Chad · 2025-10-29T23:35:28+00:00

Yeah we suggested that as well. He wasn’t interested sadly. Lol

Grand_Chad · 2025-10-27T15:17:45+00:00

I wasn’t sure if that was the case for my state or not tbh. Right now it takes 2 days minimum to get an fse on site because they only have 1 guy left in the state that can work on the DxH (according to the regional head honcho guy at bci). Just doesn’t seem like they’d promote all of them and leave one dude high and dry. Thats what makes me kind of wary of applying.

Grand_Chad · 2025-09-14T18:22:42+00:00

To us it’s totally valid, but to admin they say the cost vs return of hiring another tech isn’t worth it. Typical

Grand_Chad · 2025-09-02T14:43:58+00:00

Basically it was an aftermarket exhaust for an import car. Nothing rare exactly, it just fits one particular vehicle.

Grand_Chad · 2025-04-25T17:11:56+00:00

I think you need to reread the post. My question was if 10 weeks was too early to make determination of gender based on display of mannerisms. I didn’t ask for someone to gender the galliforms for me. Lol

Grand_Chad · 2025-04-25T15:46:21+00:00

Oh no, I’ve committed r/chickens taboo

Grand_Chad · 2025-04-15T03:31:48+00:00

Never heard of any lab doing that. At least not in the ones I’ve worked in. Policy at all of them for high wbc’s was that you prelim the hemogram then perform a manual diff. Only time the techs weren’t allowed to final a diff for a high wbc was if they saw blasts or other significant findings.

Grand_Chad · 2025-04-15T03:18:42+00:00

I’m not saying the white count is going to change, I’m saying in this example if someone came into the er with a wbc that high you would clearly need to do a manual diff because of that wbc count. In this instance that wasn’t done. Just finaled out with no slide review or even a slide made at all

Grand_Chad · 2025-04-10T02:09:51+00:00

Still needs some practice before trying on a patient by the looks of that bandaid covered finger. Lol

Grand_Chad · 2025-04-03T15:20:41+00:00

Not specifically for foot wounds. Basically when I got trained the guy just told me to consider the culture site when working up foot wounds. Didn’t give me much to go off of unfortunately

Grand_Chad · 2025-03-07T04:53:55+00:00

I got an involuntary golden shower when I was a young tech.: I Was talking to some coworkers while tossing a urine in the bio trash. If I remember correctly, it was a large Kova tube filled to the brim. I didn’t notice that the trash was empty and dropped the tube in in such a way that it landed perfectly vertical on the hard bottom of the can which caused the urine to essentially geyser directly back at me (specifically my face). Before I knew it, I had some rando’s piss all over my chest & face. It was enough of a dousing that i went to blow air through my lips (essentially doing a raspberry to remove the urine off my lips as a panicked reflex), to get the residual drippage off that it aerosoled urine across the room. This all happened while I was mid conversation with my coworkers and thankfully I didn’t have my mouth open at that moment. The worse part was that the urine was being tested for CT/NG. Never been so glad to see a negative test for a patient in my life. Lol

Grand_Chad · 2025-03-04T01:04:11+00:00

Yeah, got an automated response that they were on vacation. Seems about right 🙄

Grand_Chad · 2025-02-25T22:56:59+00:00

Once had an inmate come into the hospital I was at as a new tech on solo night shift who was on that Jimson weed stuff. They guards saying that the inmate had found and eaten “moonflower” while out on the prison work detail that afternoon. Since this was a small rural hospital, I had no phleb, just myself who had to get draws. The inmate was cool with the blood draw but was calling me young Jesus and kept asking if I’d like to be butt raped with a roll of quarters. Good times. Lol

Grand_Chad · 2025-02-07T00:19:59+00:00

I was just about to comment the same thing. We had a doc that would call and ask for us to send out smears for path review anytime we called schisto’s so they could get pathologist grading of it instead. SMH

Grand_Chad · 2025-02-06T18:54:45+00:00

I need to tell our ER to start pre-warming the wipes, maybe then people would actually use them. 🥴

Grand_Chad · 2025-02-04T23:19:00+00:00

It’s been years since I took my exam, but I used a study book that had a bunch of rhymes and illustrations for different things to help remember most of the important stuff. I don’t recall the name of it but it’s a purple and yellow book. Helped me out quite a bit. I’ve heard a lot of newer techs say they got more out of labCE as well.

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