Clinical Laboratory Scientist
As a Clinical Lab Scientist in this small rural hospital, my responsibilities included:• Opening duties (early shift): Preparing all instruments for the “daily run”. This included maintenance, QC, and daily inventory of reagents (and preparing newreagents when necessary).• My primary responsibilities were in the Core Lab, Blood Bank, and Serology. I also performed PCR using the CEPHEID. • I had limited Micro duties (gram stains, setting up cultures, processing Blood Cultures, “reading” sputum samples).• Maintaining daily QC, and initiating the appropriate corrective action upon QC failure.• Sharing “on-call” duties at night (for the ER).