I’ve been doing this job for 10 years and worked at 4 different hospitals. At my current job which I started about 7 months ago, they’re writing us up for every minor mistake we make. I have never been written up so many times in such a short period. Micro and blood bank are new to me at this current job (only worked heme, Chem before), and I feel like I am still learning. Yesterday there were multiple blood cultures positive on the same patient, I resulted out the first two which were on the same accession number, did the PCR, called the result for all of them to the provider, But today I realized I forgot to result the third one. I know as far as patient care it’s not that serious because all three blood cultures bottles were on the same patient from the same day, and they all had GNR, pcr e. Coli (which I called to the patient and reported on the first). I also set up plates on all three and made GS. Normally I would catch something I forgot to complete out on the pending log, but for these there isn’t a log. The log only shows if the blood culture bottles were received into the lab, not when they go positive and the gs didn’t get completed or are pending.

Im pretty certain I am going to be written up on Monday when I go back to work. This stress isn’t worth it…I know I am a good tech and everyone makes mistakes. The level of stress is making me feel like I want to switch careers. :(