The personnel in the PGH labs (OPD and Central labs) are all skilled and highly competent but not professional. Guess what?! STAT tests are ignored in PGH labs. The testing is really fast but the releasing of results aren't. I heard on med tech say that if PGH wants STAT results, they should hire more people. Uh... no. You just set-up a different data processing for STAT tests. It must be the low pay combined with the repetetive nature of their work. These people could use a retraining on patient interaction. Of course I'm a fine one to complain, I haven't worked there as long as they had.
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We had a pre-deployment seminar yesterday in preparation for our Community work in San Juan, Batangas. Fortunately, one of the members of the CHDP program sat in our orientation so we had a nice discussion with him. Unfortunately, we still don't know how we are going to approach the community since we have no data and have reason to believe that we'll have a hard time finding the data we need (due to poor documentation and organization by the CHDP program). I heard that Area coordinators of other groups gave them possible problems to focus on. This incidentally is the original plan for us. Unfortunately, that will not be the case for our cluster(3 groups including ours).
Not to mention that we have to work within the problem tree and objectives of the CHDP. We also have to use the Inter-disciplinary approach and must set up programs that will complement the already existing programs (which we don't know what). Our group is also special in that we'll probably have to work closely with other PH groups in our cluster.
I'm excited but really really scared.
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