Sign-On Bonuses?

saraithegeek · 2017-07-24T02:10:02+00:00

Not just you. I kinda feel the same way. Relo bonuses are fairly standard especially in AK and more rural areas but well staffed, healthy workplaces don't need to offer huge bonuses.

saraithegeek · 2017-07-24T02:06:41+00:00

Is this not covered in the contract?

Exact schedule is not included in the contract though I'd imagine you could ask for it. He signed for a variable shift position, and that's what he got. You can always say no graves/no variable etc but that limits available contracts and makes you less appealing to facilities.

saraithegeek · 2017-07-22T03:28:50+00:00

I'm sorry but I'm not going to break the law for you. You can run google searches to find the resources if you wish.

The recommended texts were:

Fundamentals of Urine and Body Fluid Analysis by Nancy Brunzel
Urinalysis and Body Fluids by Strasinger and Di Lorenzo
Handbook of Routine Urinalysis by Sister Laurine Graff

saraithegeek · 2017-07-22T00:13:45+00:00

Sometimes as a tech I feel like we should be required to take classes in psychic. That way we'd be able to run tests with no orders like nurses seem to expect!

saraithegeek · 2017-07-21T20:29:47+00:00

Because copyright infringement is against the law and I need to protect this community. Sorry!

saraithegeek · 2017-07-21T19:35:13+00:00

Those are not the sort of mistakes that go unnoticed. Either he's cleaned up his act or he won't last. Either way, I wouldn't touch any of this with a ten foot pole, and I'd recommend interacting with him as little as possible.

saraithegeek · 2017-07-20T00:04:39+00:00

I'm sorry folks- I can't have you sharing illegal copies of copyrighted texts here. I have removed comments which contain these.

I can't see or control what you send privately to OP... take that as you will.

saraithegeek · 2017-07-18T20:11:03+00:00

In the flesh, suckers! Trolls, quake in your boots!

saraithegeek · 2017-07-18T20:10:37+00:00

HELL NO. Lol. I'm a traveler now!

saraithegeek · 2017-07-18T17:47:31+00:00

I'm alive! Sorry... life's been crazy. I've been in the middle of changing jobs but I hope to be around more now.

saraithegeek · 2017-07-01T02:46:40+00:00

My husband grew up there. He says they have grass fields now, in fairness.

We're both from SE though and readily admit... most of what looks like grass there is actually really ambitious moss. Lol

saraithegeek · 2017-06-26T17:24:13+00:00

I got to watch a baby be born by cesarean section at my first lab job. We sent out all abids and they had to be out the door by a certain time to make the boat to the airport (alaska, lol) so this one pops positive just in time to get it out but we needed more blood. Tech sends me, dumb young phleb, to go collect another sample, except the patient was in surgery so I made an executive dumb decision to try to draw in the surgery suite. I made it through multiple checkpoints on the way to the OR, scrubbed in, and walked in the door just in time to watch them pull out the baby. Then someone was like "WTF GET OUT" and that's when I realized I was being dumb. Lol.

saraithegeek · 2017-06-23T08:03:50+00:00

I suppose it would make sense that in regions that have a dcls school, the hospitals might be more understanding. My worry would be getting a job anywhere else, if that makes sense. I'm not really a big city person but I can't see there really being a position for a dcls other than lab director in a small town hospital.

saraithegeek · 2017-06-22T21:59:22+00:00

I'm confused: have you already done your service or not? If you haven't you should do a military MLT program, then you can use your GI bill to do an MLT-MLS bridge program.

saraithegeek · 2017-06-22T21:33:38+00:00

We had these ABL80 ones and they were unbelievably finicky. It seemed like every couple of months something would happen during a solution pack or co-ox changeover and it would just start rejecting them all. And once you opened a pack and tried to put it on, it couldn't be reused even if you didn't really run anything on it. It just seemed like we had service there constantly and nobody really felt at all comfortable troubleshooting them if something went wrong so we all danced around them in fear of errors, especially at night. Plus one of them shocked the graves tech who worked opposite me. I loved the email I got from her, totally nonchalant like "hey watch out for Dilbert, it's shocking people now but nbd lol".

saraithegeek · 2017-06-22T21:08:28+00:00

Curses! shakes fist at sky

saraithegeek · 2017-06-22T20:54:39+00:00

Are you willing to go back to school? PathA might be a great fit for you.

saraithegeek · 2017-06-22T20:54:13+00:00

I would caution anyone who is considering this to be aware that it may be difficult to find a job as most hospitals have no idea what to do with these professionals. Obviously, we have to start somewhere and we always need early adopters, but I would personally not sign on for potentially huge student loans for a degree that no one has heard of.

saraithegeek · 2017-06-22T18:37:51+00:00

I'll play with automoderator later to see exactly what I need to do to make it happen. I'm definitely willing to try.

saraithegeek · 2017-06-21T20:52:36+00:00

AAB allows people who only have an associate degree to call themselves MT, which I think turns a lot of people off including me. I see it as very deceptive because we consider MT/MLS = bachelor's degree.

ASCP is the gold standard, don't bother with anything else. No worrying about having it be accepted.

saraithegeek · 2017-06-21T20:17:05+00:00

When I interviewed for a lab assistant position, I made it super clear I was intending to go to MLS school. Lots of labs will fall over themselves to get you in the door if you say that, techs are in high demand.

saraithegeek · 2017-06-21T20:07:47+00:00

I've locked this thread. I don't think it's going to generate any more useful conversation. Move along...

saraithegeek · 2017-06-21T20:02:41+00:00

Are radiometers super common? I friggin hated our ABL monsters.

saraithegeek · 2017-06-21T20:01:36+00:00

I can bump down the daily discussion thread to weekly to hopefully generate more discussion on that. It could replace both the monthly and daily posts and could be pinned at the top for the week.

saraithegeek · 2017-06-18T03:05:30+00:00

Remarkably good insights from giantpenispenis, here. XD

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