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Another incident to report that had us thinking. White cell counting chamber type was changed from Improved Neubauer to Modified Fuchs Rosenthal. Staff were well informed of this change over yet still a cell count from a continuous ambulatory peritoneal (CAPD) fluid was mis-calculated with potential...
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Hi Mark, Firstly, business at Gael is very good so hopefully we'll be around for a long time to come. You do, however, raise a very valid point and I know some of my technical colleagues will be responding tomorrow on the technical aspects of your questions. One thing that we're currently considering...
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In the interests of prevention I relate a tale of an incident which fortunately had no patient impact but had the potential for such. A CSF (spinal tap) was centrifuged using a sterile eppendorf container with a similar container for the balance. However the fluid in the balance was subsequently used...
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Hi folks, just to let you know about a couple of forthcoming events we are involved in, North and South of the border, over the next couple of weeks. We will be exhibiting at the Risk & Patient Safety event in London on 25 & 26th November - come along and visit us at Stand 6 and introduce yourself...
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New CPA standard introduced in April 08 B9.3 "Competency to perform assigned tasks shall be assessed following training and periodically thereafter. Retraining and reassessment shall occur when necessary. Records of competency assessments shall be kept". I'm still struggling with setting...
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Hi Martin Thank you for your reply I am thinking of this from Two directions 1 - Staff members need to have records of their accidents in and around the lab i.e. needle stick injuries, cuts, trips breaks. also we need to log accidents that are major as IR1s as well - we do this as CA/PAs at the moment...
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Hello We have COSHH sheets and MDS and package inserts stored in a folder called external documents which I am slowly populating, I am running these in addition to the SOPs and linking them in. WE are hoping to get the risk management module to help with this soon, but we have not had much info about...
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Thanks for the post Path_Links, this appears to be a Pathology (or Laboratory) specific use of Q-Pulse. Hopefully some other community users in the Pathology or Laboratory Accreditation field can provide some feedback.
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We are just starting out populating QPulse with SOPs, with a lot having associated Risk or COSHH assessments. One method we have found to store these types of documents is to upload them with the SOP so that the one record contains both (or all three) documents. Is anyone achieving this link between...