Gram Stain, Request Form, etc etc.. and the nursing station !!!!
kinda found out that some people in the nursing satation are lazy..
yesterday i received a request for routine culture and AFB of a certain patient.Of course there are two request form. One for culture and one for AFB.
THen i looked at the request form(smear) to see if there are still other procedures to be done. There ain’t.They only encirlce AFB and so we only did AFB and culture.
Now we at the lab have gone crazy looking for THE PATIENT’S Gram Stain slide because a certain doctor wants his result badly…and we couldnt find it…
Then i remember there is no request for gram stain..i looked over it several times yesterday,the request form where u supposed to encirle all procedures that requires smearing(gram’s included)
Then the medtech checked the other request form(the one where routine culture and sensibility should be) and there she found it neatly written very TINY at the buttom under the "other request" (or somethiung like it) box!!!
What on earth is that???
Don’t they know that we are flooded with millions of specimens everyday? They should have to do their part also even if just by putting the right request in the right form so that it won’t srew in the end…..
