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    Lowered Productivity

    Our productivity benchmark (the number of hours we're allotted per patient scan) was recently lowered by 0.07. And while that might not seem like much, it's a huge deal. The shortest exam that we do takes 1.5 hours minimum. And that's just scan time; it doesn't include waiting for transport, starting IVs, explaining the test, or anything else that goes along with patient care. Our longest test can go out 96 hours--although each day is only about 30 minutes of actual camera time. But we don't get credit for the exam until it's complete and even then, it still only counts as one exam. Even though we have to make room in the schedule to scan that patient for 3 or 4 days and it can really muck everything up if we're busy.

    There is one exam that can take either 2.5 hours or 4 hours depending on how it's ordered. As it stands right now, if that were to be the only thing on the schedule (or they call us in on the weekend to do it--which is a whole 'nother rant), the algorithm doesn't account for enough hours for one tech to come in and do the whole exam. And they can't see how this is a problem.

    Oh, and we're training 2 people. But they still count on our budget even though they're not quite ready to be left alone and be full-fledged techs yet.
    I am no longer of capable of the emotion you humans call “compassion”. Though I can feign it in exchange for an hourly wage. (Gravekeeper)
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    Idiots. And with patients like me, you need an extra 20 minutes for the 4 IV tries including calling the person who's best at it.

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    • #3
      Probably a good thing I'm not one of yer patients, then ^_^ While I'm generally calm around needles etc, even though I hate them (I literally tell them to warn me before they stick me so I can close my eyes -- it works for me!), I'm of somewhat Ruebenesque proportions, so it takes a while to find a usable vein, even near my elbow.
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      • #4
        We're pretty good at getting a vein cuz we get lots and lots of practice. It's a rare thing for us to have to get one of the IVR nurses and rarer still to have to call the lady with the cool ultrasound machine. But it does happen from time to time. So if you know you're a tough stick, call the office/hospital ahead of time and see what arrangements can be made. If you're one of those folks who needs a PICC line, it's better to know before hand and get it ordered and scheduled with everything else than have it be a surprise. Or if you have a port, call and let us know so we can have a nurse available to access it.
        I am no longer of capable of the emotion you humans call “compassion”. Though I can feign it in exchange for an hourly wage. (Gravekeeper)

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        • #5
          I've never had to have an actual IV (not since I was a wee kid and had viral meningitis & dehydration, wheeeee), I'm used to the friendly vampires at my semiannual checkups ^vv^ I always warn them that they may have trouble getting a good vein on the inside of my arm, and I've always been right -- it's taken them as long as 4 minutes but they find it eventually. Still better than that one time I let someone stick me in the very prominent vein on the back of my hand...MotherCUSTOMER that hurt x.x
          "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
          "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
          "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
          "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
          "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
          "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
          Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
          "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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          • #6
            Quoth EricKei View Post
            Still better than that one time I let someone stick me in the very prominent vein on the back of my hand...MotherCUSTOMER that hurt x.x
            I've only needed blood drawn a handful of times, but once they had to do the back of the hand. It was unpleasant. I don't have a fear of needles, but I had to look away. It was the only time they had trouble finding a vein, and totally my fault. I was not as well-hydrated as I should have been, and I was also very cold. We had to run my arms under hot water for a while.
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            • #7
              My dad has big, huge, puffy, veins that you can see stick out! However you try and poke them? and they move... Lol. They quite literally just... Nope...

              He almost always has to have a IVR or ER nurse come in to poke him. They always go "Oh no I can do this!" because they are such obvious veins, and he gives them two shots... then makes them send for someone better at it. XD

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              • #8
                I have dancing veins, too. I can only surmise that they know what's coming >_>
                "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                • #9
                  When I joined the Army, they give you a full physical.

                  Something happened, that never happened to me before or since, the vein collapsed and I passed out from the pain. I think, I do not remember the pain, just the short dream I had for 30 seconds while asleep.

                  They do not do it anymore, but in Combat Lifesaver Training they would teach us to insert an IV catheter. I got pretty good at it, but I prayed that my battle buddies would get better (because they were practicing on me too!!!).
                  I might be crazy, but I'm not Insane.

                  What? You don't play with flamethrowers on the weekends? You are strange.

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