u/FarAide6602

I currently work in a county hospital and I feel like lately it has gotten toxic. I'm a MLS with a Master's in Business. I have been wanting to get into days but I got passed on twice by the past lab dorector that got let go. Both candidates were fresh out of school and had less schooling. The whole lab advocates for me and now I get to leave Fridays at 6:30 because of it. I currently work evenings which I hate because I'm a very social person . We get amazing benefits at my workplace like 8 hours of PTO per every 2 weeks, state pension and an almost free Healthcare. I do not know how long it will take for a morning position to open up. I got an offer from rhe trauma 2 hospital close by for a morning shift position but their benefits are awful. They can only accrue maximum 96 hours of PTO per year, they get 3 sick or personal days plus a suoer strict attendance policy. 1 minute late is a point and 8 of them you are fired. My hospital has a 7 minute frame. I have to choose between better hours or more life work balance. I also heard that hospital and the managers told me can be very stressful. On the interview they told me they usually get employees through the students but none of them decided to stay​

edit: got my California CLS license a week ago too

I'm just very stressed and anxious from work. So our lab director got fired due to numerous reasons. We have been getting lots of new polices and sops. I got talked to and question by the hospital quality due to a delayed Ptt from ICU. Patient is doing way better now and will be discharged. So I cancelled the first PTT because I believed it was contaminated and the nurse told me she drew it while patient was receiving heparin. I told her it was way too high and I wasn't comfortable with releasing results because it might be contaminated. There was a redraw, it took me 25 minutes to get it put of the system because we have very long huddles everyday. The tube wasn't received by the line and appeared as ordered on my pending and I was busy with all my oncology patients. I released the results almost 2 hours later because nurse called and I start investigating. ​I released the result. I got an incident report from the nurse and talked to 3 times already. My supervisor said you don't suspect contamination unless there is clot or its over 400 for ptt and if its less just result it. I got blamed and questioned and pull by quality in front of all my coworkers. I do not want to go to work again. I rarely make mistakes and I work understaffed in 2nd shift. I know I could have done things better but I don't belive everything was completely my fault. I don't know if I will be fired. This happened over a week ago but nursing is still pissed at the lab​