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Medical Laboratory Skills Checklist

Skills Checklist are available for registered candidates.

The following checklist is used to assess your experience and skills and help your Nurse Advisor place you in the proper assignment. Please provide a self-assessment of your skills using the following guidelines.

1  No experience
2  Require training
3  Have performed this task and able to perform without supervision
4  Most experienced and able to perform independently
5  Able to teach and supervise



Blood Bank

 1 2 3 4 5
Antibody Identification
Antibody Titer
Blood Irradiation
Cold Agglutinins
Component Preparation
Coombs Test:          
   Direct
   Indirect
Cross Match
Donor Unit Collections
Emergency Release
Freezing Blood
Immediate Spin Cross Match
Patient Identification

Plasmapheresis
Plateletpheresis
Procedures
Rhogam
Special Blood Typing (Kell, Kidd, Duffy, RHHR, MNS, Lewis, P)
Type RH

Chemistry

 1 2 3 4 5
Acetone Analysis
Atomic Absorption
CSF/Body Fluid Chemistries          
    Drug Monitoring
    Electrolytes
Electrophoresis
Gas Chromatography
Immunoelectrophoresis
Instrumentation Used: Include Blood Gas
Main Chemistry Unit
Osmolality
Stool Analysis (Fecal Fats)
Thin Layer Chromatography

Hematology

 1 2 3 4 5
Bleeding Time
Body Fluid Count
CBC
Differential
Eosinophil Count
Factor Assays 1 2 3 4 5
Fetal Hemoglobin
Fibrin Split Products/FDP
Fibrinogen

Lee-White Clotting Time
Platelet Aggregation
Platelet Count
PT and PTT
Reticulocyte
Sedimentation Rate
Sickle Cell Prep
Special Stains (PAS, Peroxidase, Leukocyte Aldaline Phosphatase)
Thrombin Time

Microbiology/Virology

 1 2 3 4 5
Acid Fast Stain (Fluorescent)
Acid Fast Stain (Kinyoun)
Aerobic Culture
Anaerobic Culture
Anaerobic Identification
Blood Culture
C Difficili Assay
Cell Culture
Chlamydia Culture
Chlamydia Smear
Concentration Techniques
Culture Plating
Darkfield
Gram Stain
Identification
India Ink
KOH Prep
M.I.C.
Malarial Examination
Mycobacteria: Culture
Occult Blood
Organism Identification (Aerobic)
Ova and Parasite Concentration
Ova and Parasite Identification: Trichcone
Sensitivities
Virus Identification
Virus Isolation
West Mount-Mobility
Wet Mount

Phlebotomy

 1 2 3 4 5
Finger stick
Heel Stick
M.L.A.
Operation of Centrifuge
Pediatric
Pipetting
To Contain
To Deliver
Venipuncture
Volumetric
Knowledge of Tube Types and Uses: Anticoagulants
Calculation for Solution Prep: Molarity, Molality
Use of Balance (Weighing)
Basic Safety Guidelines: Gloves, Goggles,
Masks
Communication Skills
Ability to Wr ite Procedures

RIA

 1 2 3 4 5
B12/Folates
Background Counts
Counters
Curves/Regression
Data Reduction
Hepatitis
Hormone Testing
Instrumentation/Gamma Counters
Radiation Safety Techniques

Scintillation Counter
Thyroid Testing
Tumor Markers
Serology/Immunology 1 2 3 4 5

ANA
ASO Titer
Body Fluids
C3. C4, Total Complement
Febrile Agglutinations
FTA-ABS
Hemagglutination Inhibition
LE Cell Prep
Meningitis Screen
Monospot
Pregnancy Testing
Radial Immuno Diffusion
Rheumatoid Factor
RPR
Rubella Serology
TORCH Studies

Urinalysis

 1 2 3 4 5
Macroscopic U.A.
Microscopic U.A.
Crystal Identification
Semen Analysis
Automated Instrumentation