Liann

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  1. How can you say you're not paid well?

    I am a med tech in the Blood Bank. When I worked on Thanksgiving, an OR nurse came to pick up blood and told me I could take my time getting it ready because she was on double-triple overtime.....isnt that wonderful? (I sure as heck was NOT getting...
  2. 1950s nursing

    Prmenrs: The first book in the Anne Perry series about Nurse Hester Latterly (and her detective and lawyer friends) is called Face of a Stranger.
  3. 1950s nursing

    Some thoughts I had on reading this thread.... I went to Medical Technology school in 1982...yeah...its ancient history...and we were taught to do hemacytometer grid counts for CBC as well as the little dilution pipettes that you had to SUCK up on to...
  4. Nurses and Blood Draws?

    If taking the very best care of the patient is the goal, then someone has to draw the lab tests. I am a laboratorian and I do my very best to work with whatever clotted, hemolyzed, skimpy sample I get. I never call for a recollect if I dont absolut...
  5. in need of some good reads: nursing fiction

    I see The Ciderhouse Rules by John Irving is on the list. It is not strictly about nursing, but is one of my favorite (medically related) books of all time. It really makes you think...
  6. in need of some good reads: nursing fiction

    WOW...that is some list, landonsles! I will have to go through it when I have more time!!!! Thanks.
  7. PTT & APTT - Differences?

    Are the pharmaceutical companies starting to market coumedin in prefilled PEZ dispensors? Must be....I work in the Blood Bank, and it seems as if all we do anymore is thaw mass quantities of FFP. Docs yelling for it...and it takes 30 min to thaw....r...
  8. in need of some good reads: nursing fiction

    I forgot Tess Gerritsen! Awesome stories! I read somewhere that Stephen King himself is her biggest fan......thats a great endorsement!
  9. in need of some good reads: nursing fiction

    I figured someone would say that
  10. in need of some good reads: nursing fiction

    We Band of Angels was wonderful, but The Healers War by the same author about Vietnam was not as good. It was OK, but had a slant that I did not agree with. Maybe Vietnam is still too touchy a subject? The M*A*S*H books are funny and also have a p...
  11. What does STAT mean to your Lab?

    I think the confusion comes from the definition of STAT. This staus should only be used when a result is dire, as was previously stated. People abuse STAT status to get thing moving quickly for various reasons, such as STAT Rhogam orders we get fo...
  12. MLT? Anyout here?

    Well, then welcome to the world of the lab! Forewarned is forearmed. Best of luck to you! Dont forget to keep hanging out here at allnurses. This group is the greatest! :chuckle
  13. MLT? Anyout here?

    Also... "getting the word out" is a theme of every National Medical Laboratory Week in April. Each year we plan a grand production designed to teach the public and our co workers just what we do. The lack of interest is staggering. We sit at tab...
  14. MLT? Anyout here?

    As I said before, I love the job, just hate the conditions we work in. When I was younger and idealistic, I chose the path I did because I loved bio and chem and all the hands on lab work. I did NOT enjoy so much patient contact...or patient's fami...
  15. MLT? Anyout here?

    And another thing I work a lot of weekends and had an OR nurse tell me to "take your time with that blood...I am on double, triple overtime today" Yeah, right. I replied that "we only have ONE speed inthe Blood Bank and that is STAT" :chuckle