Yeast Cards:

We will begin using them now. No more germ tube.

Don’t need to sub out Yeast QC weekly now. It is only when we receive a new shipment of cards.

Refer to procedure on how to set the cards up. It is a 1.80 to 2.20 McFarland Standard.

Refer to Yeast ID procedure when reporting the results.

Both of these procedures will be placed on MTS to be reviewed.

Gram slides:

Each morning we need to remove the slides for the corresponding day and wipe the tray.

Slides are to be kept in a box and kept for 2 months.

Please try to blot off the oil when finished on a piece of gauze so that the trays do not get full of oil.

TB worksheets:

Since we are now entering LJ results weekly and finalizing TB on week 8 it was decided that we do not need to keep worksheets. We can still use them for the day we are processing samples but they do not need to be kept.

We will have the QC slide order be placed into TQC. It will be an order that we need to generate, not one which will come up everyday as we do not do TB everyday.

Until LIS has had a chance to build this, Laura will create a chart we can use to record the QC.

Bench worksheets:

We do not need to keep these. We do not go back to them and everything should be in the LIS and we can look on there.

H.influenzae sensitivity:

We do not need to do susceptibility testing on respiratory specimens only on sterile sites which are CSF, Blood culture, sterile fluid

Add isolate comment: “&HAEM” will give you the appropriate comment.

Do not need to perform beta lactamase on these specimens either.

We will continue to perform QC so that if we do have to report susceptibilities the QC is already done.

BV procedure:

Everyone said it is going well and there are no concerns.

We need to make sure that if we get a sample from Hay River or Fort Smith that if wet prep is written on the requisition but not ordered we will order it for them until they get used to the new procedure.

An ident disks:

We have discontinued them.

We will continue to list the organism if non sterile site or send to Dynalife if from sterile site.

Have anaerobic transport media that we can use if sending sample to Dynalife. It will be located on the shelf beside the Vitek.

Moses:

Wanted to remind us to make sure the plates in the CSF kit are not expired. They should be checked nightly.

Solomon:

Wanted to know if we can keep the CSF kit in the fridge or do we need to bring it out each night. Laura will ask Jennifer.