Downtime Protocol
When I selected the topic, Downtime Protocol, for this month’s blog, I wasn’t sure where I was going to begin. But like anytime I am at a loss for an idea, I took a few days to “sleep on it.” I was hoping a f...
Preparing to Move your Laboratory
Unless you still live in the same house where you grew up, you have moved at least once in your life. The purging, the sorting, the packing and the unpacking. It’s exciting and exhausting. It’s understandabl...
Performance Evaluations – Is it Okay for an Employee to be Acceptable?
As a Laboratory Manager, my responsibilities include the CLIA required annual employee competency and our organization’s Human Resources required annual performance evaluation. As laboratorians, we are aware...
Returning to the Lab — After 10 Years!
Have you ever hired a technologist who has been away from the clinical laboratory for 10 years or more? In my early career, I had the “pleasure” of training a tech who had stepped away from the laboratory to...
To reject or not to reject?… That is the question.
I walked through the accessioning area of my lab a few mornings ago. Like almost every morning for the last 6 years, my techs were standing at the accession encounter, sorting through the specimens we received....