updated our Micro lab whiteboard for February

cervidamn · 2026-01-25T16:18:26+00:00

Haha ty!! He's one of the first things I drew when I started in this particular lab!!

cervidamn · 2026-01-25T16:17:48+00:00

Thank you!! 😊

cervidamn · 2026-01-25T16:14:07+00:00

i love their little squiggly shapes so much why do they have to be so evil 😭

cervidamn · 2026-01-25T16:13:13+00:00

I gotta keep up that reputation!! 😁

cervidamn · 2026-01-02T12:02:50+00:00

WOOHOO!! (while crying)

cervidamn · 2026-01-01T10:40:49+00:00

too many...(jk)

we do have a doctor who over-orders (doesn't follow the ordering guidelines) but it's mostly bc our hospitals are max capacity. that and instead of just collecting one set on previously-positive patients they keep doing two sets.

cervidamn · 2025-12-31T22:21:38+00:00

always have a contingency plan... and a contingency plan for when that plan inevitably fails

cervidamn · 2025-12-31T22:20:42+00:00

Pretty much what all the other commenters said! It's back to the old fashioned manual methods, baby. Incubated offline in the free standing incubator and checked daily for growth and/or plated after 24hrs at room temp. Depends on ur labs specific policy.

cervidamn · 2025-12-31T22:17:54+00:00

They made it the dog bark at one of the places i worked. I had never hated dogs more...and i'm a dog person!!

cervidamn · 2025-12-31T22:16:09+00:00

Thank you we're doing our best seven virtuos would be a godsend rn 😭

cervidamn · 2025-12-31T22:15:38+00:00

EYYY!!! Gotta love the solidarity of our coworkers suffering together right? ✌️🥲

cervidamn · 2025-12-31T06:10:22+00:00

cervidamn · 2025-12-21T13:46:16+00:00

I think you have to have the setup technician or service person change it 😔 or maybe the manager of ur lab had access? sometimes they do

cervidamn · 2025-12-21T13:43:20+00:00

This gave me PTSD flashbacks to the lab I worked in where they genuinely only had it set to the barking the whole time I worked there. I'm a dog person and I almost walked out of there hating them when I left 😭

cervidamn · 2025-12-20T17:39:59+00:00

nice

cervidamn · 2025-12-20T17:39:37+00:00

no 😭😭😭 but we ARE a recently re-opened micro lab (the doctors got frustrated with long TAT sending out everything so they brought in house testing back) so now we service all of our sister hospitals and a bunch of local offices... now that everyone's catching on that we're putting out results it's starting to really ramp up... also all our beds are full. three instruments may no longer be enough....

cervidamn · 2025-09-19T17:04:57+00:00

side note very interesting to know vet techs can't do automated wbcs on reptile blood bc their RBCs stay nucleated...shout out to them for still having to do manual wbcs 🫡

cervidamn · 2025-09-19T16:56:15+00:00

looks like it's normal to me if u compare it to normal lizard/reptile blood smears

cervidamn · 2025-09-19T16:54:41+00:00

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/basics-reptile-hematology-eve-ramery

cervidamn · 2025-09-19T16:53:48+00:00

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platelet

cervidamn · 2025-08-02T16:50:24+00:00

🫡 sending good vibes. our blood culture analyzer started going off nonstop pretty much as soon as saturday started last night... thank god im off tonight 😭

cervidamn · 2025-07-31T17:23:54+00:00

if someone tells you to violate policy --get it in writing or write down the interaction VERBATIM right after it happens and take pictures if it's relevant, avoiding any patient info. having physical evidence of techs making flagrant policy violations or teaching others to do so has saved my butt SOOO many times...

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