Areas Nahid Azad-Frouz is Knowledgeable in:
Microbiology CAP, identification, management
Techniques Nahid Azad-Frouz Uses:
Before centralization, I asked everyone to take responsibility of some of the procedures, completed the SOP, then after we centralized, I asked all the techs to try each other reagents and procedures and come up with one, then I modified the SOPs and ordered the reagents best served our lab
Nahid Azad-Frouz's Problem Solving Skills:
- I consolidated 4 hospital microbiology lab with 38 staff and average of 900 specimen per day
- I am the manager of microbiology lab at Inova Central Laboratory.
Nahid Azad-Frouz's Problem Solving Experience:
- We were 4 hospital laboratories with 4 different procedures and reagents as well as 2 different ID/Sensitivity instrument. We had to come up with one SOP to handle the specimens and cultures and decide on reagents we wanted to continue using