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Page ? ME s O Fromm .Jerry Robiaso to Neal. Evans re Budget Revisions January 17 , 1978 Ill. We presently use an abundance of public health nursing time for non nursing activitias such as laboratory w'ok. r , over-clinical involvement and paper sufEling. W1 are not addressing the preventative health care needs as we should due tp this. An expensive approach to this problem is to hire more nurses and coptinue the waste., The preferred approach is to retain, reorient and rears gn clerical staff (no additional cost over the present) is -presently being accomplish. Secondly, to hire a laboratory technician which is -p y type walk, more a€fecient less .'ex easiv'e who is better tram ed €ortthi.s t a P `.e :acrd thereby free P N's for preventative care, screening, health education, home visitation ani community public health duties. Attachment No. 4 (bottom part).-gives the cat factors for a laboratory technician. Attachment No. 5 is format presentation of our case for a laboratory technniciar.. The basic reasons for starting this now rather than waiting, are: 1) Co-,=on sense dictates one to do something to stop waste. 2) if we are not aoi.ng to reorient and address public health from a field _ work prevents ive Focus then we should not waste such planning efforts a or next year-. in putting to ether our budget € „ . The bottom portion of Attachment loo. I gives the requested transfers of funds to accom lisp the above. Again, we have the necessary funds appro- priated to finish their fiscal year with increased. expenditures. This re- quest was adopted at the January 12, 1978 Board of Health meeting. :s{s ... - - _ y - I .. ....j•y ry ^ N J� n Ww.