Histonetters,

I forwarded the discussion so far to the Supervisor of Transcription at the
place I used to be employed.  Her response follows.  Oh, Barb always has
some good sweets available in one of her file drawers for Residents,
Pathologists, Staff, and former Administrators.  :)  Sometimes she uses them
to soften the blow after chewing out someone for not following protocol.
*grin*

Barb is not on the Histonet, so if you want to discuss things directly, her
address is above.  I'll continue to forward any posts on this subject that
didn't get copied to her.

Don Hammer, Retired Guy
----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara Searles <bsearles@u.washington.edu>
To: Don Hammer <donh7@earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Clean Areas


>
> Thanks Don, these are interesting ideas from other path departments and
> please forward more to me.  You can pass my version along if you want to.
>
>
> Here at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle the
> transcriptionists do not handle the requisitions at all.  Since everything
> is dictated regarding the gross description, the requisitions go direclty
> from the grossing bay to the histology area where slides and requisitions
> are passed off to the residents/faculty.  We have a paperless system for
> grosses which saves both time and trees.  The residents/faculty view the
> gross descriptions on line and the transcriptionists are only
> responsibile for printing a rough draft of the entire report once the
> diagnosis has been dictated.  Once again, we do not receive requisitions
> to attach the rough draft to as the residents prefer to keep them
> at their desks.  Once the cases have been verified the
> requisitions are then turned over to the transcription area where a
> student assistant files them in numerical order.  The residents are
> usually very careful about blood, etc getting onto the requisitions.
>
> I don't think any area within a Pathology Deparmtent should  be
> considererd a 'clean area'.
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Don Hammer wrote:
>
> > Hi Barb,
> >
> > The note below is from Histonet and may be followed by some discussion.
If
> > your interested, I'll forward them to you.  This was always a subject in
the
> > back of my mind but never got around to working with you on it.
> > Don Hammer, Retired Guy
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Einfalt, Ginny <GEINFALT@virtua.org>
> > To: <histonet@pathology.swmed.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 3:04 PM
> > Subject: Clean Areas
> >
> >
> > > Dear Histonetters,
> > > We have an ongoing issue with the pathology office about whether or
not
> > the
> > > office where the girls transcribe should be considered a clean area.
> > Since
> > > all of the computer requisitions are single pages, they are circulated
> > from
> > > the pocket of the biohazard bag the specimen arrives in, to the
> > accessioning
> > > table, to the grossing area, handled by the PA and passed on to the
> > > transcriptionists who believe that they work in a "clean area".  What
are
> > > the protocols in other pathology offices?
> > >
> > > Ginny Einfalt
> > > Virtua West Jersey Hospital
> > > geinfalt@virtua.org
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>