About the job

Technician - Medical and Clinical Laboratory

Perform routine medical laboratory tests for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. May work under the supervision of a medical technologist.

Top activities and tasks for this job:

• Conduct blood tests for transfusion purposes and perform blood counts.
• Conduct chemical analyses of body fluids, such as blood or urine, using microscope or automatic analyzer to detect abnormalities or diseases and enter findings into computer.
• Analyze the results of tests or experiments to ensure conformity to specifications, using special mechanical or electrical devices.
• Inoculate fertilized eggs, broths, or other bacteriological media with organisms.
• Set up, maintain, calibrate, clean, and test sterility of medical laboratory equipment.
• Obtain specimens, cultivating, isolating, and identifying microorganisms for analysis.
• Prepare standard volumetric solutions or reagents to be combined with samples, following standardized formulas or experimental procedures.
• Examine cells stained with dye to locate abnormalities.

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