Charlie is a tech on the midnight shift at a 124-bed rural community hospital. He has worked at this hospital for 25 years, always on the midnight shift.
Charlie is a tech on the midnight shift at a 124-bed rural community hospital. He has worked at this hospital for 25 years, always on the midnight shift. He is known for taking short cuts to get his work out faster, but he is reliable and management is reluctant to counsel him. It is difficult to find qualified employees on the rural areas. For short-cut Charlie, he thinks the way he manages his work is just fine. The work gets out quickly and he has ample time to work in a stress-free environment.
A typical night for Charlie is as follows.
Charlie arrives at 10:55 p.m. to clock in for his shift that begins at 11 p.m. He is wearing his usual clothes: jeans, a red plaid flannel shirt with the long sleeves rolled up to just below the elbow, heavy white socks and sandals that he has worn for years. He has a 2 inch beard that is unkempt and dirty fingernails. His hair is thinning and often smells as he only washes it when he gets his hair cut. He puts on his lab coat, but removes it as soon as the evening shift is gone. He is responsible for collecting blood from patients in the emergency department (ED), as well as STATs on the nursing floors. He has been assigned additional PM tasks to perform during the slow times at night.
Tonight, he is updating the chemical inventory, and his supervisor has asked him to collect any chemicals that are out-of-date or no longer used. He is to box them up for disposal. As he scans the shelves, he notices that there is a liter of glacial acetic acid on the top shelf that has been in the lab for years. He is not sure when it was opened because the date is missing, but he knows the chemical is no longer used. He places it in the box for disposal. He also finds a small bottle of sodium azide and puts it in the disposal box. He continues to check the inventory, and all chemicals on the list are accounted for in the upper cabinets in the lab. He finds two new chemicals that come with the chemistry kits, but he does not add them to the inventory list.
Evaluation time is next month, and Charlie wants to make a good impression on his supervisor. She made a few comments on his appearance, which he has chosen to ignore and he wants to be on her good side. Charlie decides to save the lab money and dispose of the acetic acid and sodium azide himself. He pours them down the drain. He knows lab packs are expensive and the stuff just goes into the septic tank used by the hospital.
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