Staff who fulfill two different roles are more common than you’d think. Dual-role staff arrangements exist because they make operational sense. Unfortunately, they can also create a scheduling compliance problem that sits in the gap between two departments, two sets of managers, and two sets of accountability. The Jurisdiction Problem Under CLIA, the laboratory director
Molecular diagnostics has grown faster than almost any other area of clinical laboratory medicine over the past decade. What was once a highly specialized discipline confined to reference laboratories and academic medical centers now exists in community hospitals, outpatient clinics, and smaller independent laboratories. That expansion has created a scheduling environment that most workforce management
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If you were to ask a histology lab manager where their scheduling pressure is most visible, their answer is almost always the same. Grossing, which is the macroscopic examination and sectioning of surgical specimens that happens before anything else in the workflow, is usually the inflection point where staffing decisions have the most direct consequence.
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