Job Description
Job Description
:General Description: Under direct supervision, performs gross descriptions of simple or limited specimens. Assists during Autopsies. Prepares frozen section slides. May be required to perform routine histology tasks as well.
Essential Responsibilities:
Follows authorized technical procedures when performing patient testing.
Meets turn-around-times established for testing and reporting patient results
Receives specimens into laboratory using appropriate patient identifier and labeling requirements and receives them into the electronic medical record including registration of specimens from outpatients.
Conducts calibration of instruments and equipment in the laboratory as well as routine maintenance.
Labels tissue cassettes using block control sheets
Assists in the preparation of frozen tissue sections (label, cutting and stain slides)