After a protracted waiting period, I am, with the able assistance of one of the experienced PAs and a few of the pathologists, finally training 2 PAs. They are enjoying the opportunity and are gaining much-needed experience at the grossing bench. The formal training will last 4 months and will be complete in the spring. Then the real learning begins (as you all know). I also hope to involve them to a degree in a few autopsies within the next couple of months.
There are finally enough PAs in Kelowna these days to allow me to step away from the grossing bench for a while and to finally brush up some of the grossing procedures. The written procedures will provide standardization of procedures across the Okanagan and will be a valuable resource for all, especially the newly-trained PAs.
The newly-renovated and expanded Kelowna gross room is a welcome change. A downdraft grossing station was fabricated and installed a few months ago and a biological safety cabinet was purchased and installed recently.
Most of the changes made as a result of the Lean process being applied to the Histology lab and gross room have been for the better; some have proved to be in need of further refining. The process will be applied to the clinical labs in the near future. Despite all of the upheaval, the experience has taught a number of us to not be quite so threatened by change; wary maybe, but not threatened. It will be nice if beneficial changes can be applied to some of the other sites. Good news will naturally travel as lessons learned are communicated amongst the group.
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