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|Articles|February 1, 2008

Idea Exchange: Keep staff members on time

Since all our employees are responsible for keeping up with their duties in a timely fashion, each employee has a stopwatch with an alarm.

Since all our employees are responsible for keeping up with their duties in a timely fashion, each employee has a stopwatch with an alarm. During the busiest hours of the day, it's easy to forget to check a heartworm test at the appropriate time or to remember that a blood glucose measurement is due, for example. But when your stopwatch beeps, it alerts you to these small but important, time-sensitive events.

Dr. Nicole N. Aponte

Stone Mountain, Ga.


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