Are you hoping to measure competency or productivity? If it is competency that you hope to assess, allow your tech to cut blocks of a variety of specimen types for 1 hour *without* distractions. If they cut 30 or more blocks and produce good quality sections, then they are meeting your standard.
If it is productivity that you want to assess, then you may want to look at an average of several daily totals per tech. If you need to establish what the desired minimal productivity benchmark is for your lab, do this for several or all techs and come up with a reasonable (and achievable) benchmark for all to strive for as their minimum. Cheers, Greg -- Greg Dobbin, R.T. Chief Technologist, Anatomic Pathology Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, P.O. Box 6600 Charlottetown, PE C1A 8T5 Phone: (902) 894-2337 Fax: (902) 894-2385 *Everything in moderation...even moderation itself**!* _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet