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                        UIHC PHLEBOTOMY WIKI 

This is the home page for the UIHC Phlebotomy wiki pages. The wiki is a space that anyone on the team can upload files, images and pages for information to share with their team members.  We've tried to add pages for other labs and sections also.  You'll  find these additional pages below under "Children". If you create your own page it will also appear under children below. Wiki pages and content are searchable.

What's a WIKI?

Members can upload attachments above (see Page Operations and then Attachments).

Once files are attached, they can be displayed on the wiki for review, edit and download by others.  Password protection of pages and documents is available via request to Wendy.

LINKS:

ICON       Pathology Handbook          Phlebotomy Webpages    Phlebotomy CAPMAP

Pathology Intranet       Inpatient Schedule/Calendar     Department of Pathology     

Difficult Patient Logs (password protected)     Workload Data    UIphleb To Do Pages

Employee Self Service        Outlook Web Access      Uiowa Homepage   Uof I Healthcare

 Point of Service Schedules:

 Inpatient Schedule/Calendar      Outpatient Clinics Schedule     FTInpatient Clinic Rotations  


Announcements - See also News Pages

Inpatient phlebs - are you throwing your sharps away?  Please be careful to not leave needles on or near the patient bed(side). 

October 3, 2008: 

Could you remind staff to throw away their sharps after use, we found a capped vacutainer with capped needle on a food tray this morning, Thanks

Carol Strabala

3 RC Nurse Manager

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Iowa City, Iowa 52242

319-356-2529 or 319-356-1616 pager 7424

 _____________________________________________

Carol,

Yes, we will be happy to remind folks.

Thanks.

Kathy Kelly

Inpatient Turn Around Times: 

Our most current AM inpatient TAT time statistics for all inpatient care areas

Note also, that approximately 95% of the sampled specimens were RESULTED before 0900am

which is significant for good inpatient care and outcomes*:*


 

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Phlebs...you can click the comment link to add a comment RE huddle topics, or anything else that needs to be discussed.  You can add pictures, documents, pdfs, power points, etc.

 Have Wendy show you how to use our new wiki!!!

Posted by Wendy Voigt at May 30, 2008 12:56 | Reply To This

May 30, 2008 Huddle topic

When we have an add to...( a sample that already has Cerner stickers, but they'd like to add additional tests to) Please DO NOT write the accession number on these requisitions anymore. Instead, write Add to Lav top, add to pst, etc. It isn't necessary to put a P on the req, as a P charge will have already been ordered.

We are not using the numbers anymore because there have been some cases in which the number was not legible, OR we wrote the wrong number on the req. If Tech Services doesn't look at the tubes and just uses the number we write on the req. THEY COULD enter the additional tests on the wrong patient, label the correct patient's tube with the wrong patient's label and allow the worst possible error...analyze and report the results under the wrong patient's file. OH NO!!!! If we can avoid this by making the tech look at the tubes to get the accession number, we should.

Remember when you have a requisition, to ONLY PUT ONE PATIENT"S SAMPLES INTO THAT BAG.

Wendy

Posted by Anonymous at May 31, 2008 06:50 Updated by Wendy Voigt | Reply To This

Overtime


There is overtime posted for Sept (and there may be more) on the counter at the phlebotomy area. 

Please sign off on this.

Posted by Anonymous at Jun 01, 2008 08:11 Updated by Wendy Voigt | Reply To This

Abir has a suggestion.....

Posted by Anonymous at Jun 04, 2008 11:46 | Reply To This

Her suggestion is for each of us to take yellow dot stickers with us to the floor.  If we have a difficult patient/hard stick of some sort (edema, difficult veins, combative patient) put the dot by the patient's name on outside of the room.  Use the difficult draw page in this wiki to quickly record what the issue is with the patient.  When one of us sees the sticker on the floor we can look online in the wiki (it's easily found within a link in icon).  We'll have to communicate to nursing and housekeeping that the stickers are ours and that they can pull down the stickers when a patient is moved or dicharged.  (unless we actually put the sticker on the cardboard name tag....we'll have to investigate).  Take look at the Difficult Patients page.  To find the Difficult patient page go above to the left and click pages.

Posted by Anonymous at Jun 06, 2008 05:17 Updated by Wendy Voigt | Reply To This