Well, I've survived my first week of work. And when I say survived, I mean it. I started the week with two days of orientation. At the end of the second day, the Wishard computer system crashed and was down for more than 36 hours. The WHOLE computer system. No way to register patients, order tests, view histories or results, nothing. While "down time" creates a problem for almost every area of the hospital, it creates a very chaotic and incomprehensible problem for the lab. Everyone handled the mess gracefully but the backlog of work, manual processing, and endless phone calls meant no one had time to deal with new employees. They were all very apologetic but I spent most of the week sorting papers and doing what I could to help and stay out of the way. The majority of my processing training has been rescheduled for Monday and Tuesday, then I can finally begin training to be a generalist tech in the core lab's chemistry and hematology departments! Yippee!
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