Dynamic personality that inspires people to want to do as prompted. Persistent and driven. Superb leadership, interpersonal skills, planning and communication abilities. Ensuring safety at all times such as using the required personal protective equipment, and adhering to OSHA guidelines. Acting as liaison between the providers and outside laboratories in reference to tests and specimen. Quality Control and Quality Assurance. Perform troubleshooting and maintenance on the instruments. Process specimen. to be performed in house and by other reference labs. Perform venipunctures on infants and the elderly. Perform capillary punctures, heel sticks, and blood gases.
Work History
Current Vidant Medical Center
Greenville, NC
Process CBC’s, ESR’s, Retics, Sickles
Perform Manual Differential Counts
Perform Manual Platelet Counts
Urinalysis/Serology:
Process Routine Urinalysis,
Read urine slides
Perform Pregnancy Tests
Prep 24 hour urine jugs
Coagulation:
PT, PTT, DIMERS, FIBRIINOGEN
Heparin, TEG, Various factors, HIT assay
Mixing studies
Miscellaneous
Body fluid cell counts
Fetal Screens
Crystal Analysis
Transferred Vidant Bertie Hospital
Windsor, NC
05.2016
Process units upon arrival before putting into inventory
Crossmatch units for patients
Process specimen for individuals that had positive antibodies to be sent to American Red Cross
Processed PT, PTT, and D-Dimers
Hematology:
Process CBC’s, ESR’s
Perform Manual Differential Counts
Perform Manual Platelet Counts
Urinalysis/Serology:
Process Routine Urinalysis,
Read urine slides
Perform Pregnancy Tests, Flu Tests, RSV Tests, and Strep Tests
Process Medtox Drug Screens
Perform Wet Preps and KOH slides
Chemistry:
Process Comprehensive and Basic Metabolic Panels, Electrolytes, Liver Panels, and Lipid Panels
Perform Acetest on positive serum glucose readings
Perform serum test on Drugs of Abuse, Therapeutic Drugs, and Alcohol
Medical Laboratory Technician
Solstas Laboratory Partners
Greenville, NC
05.2009 - 11.2015
Phlebotomy
STAT Creatinines
Order supplies
Perform quality control and quality assurance
Process specimen to send to other laboratories
Report out results
Pay attention to detail
Meet deadlines
Multitasks
Work in a team
Communicate with various departments
Wayne County
Goldsboro, NC
05.2007
Serology:
Processed Routine Urinalysis, HCG’s and Clinitest
Read urine slides
Wet Mounts
RPR
Microbiology:
Read cultures of urine and gonorrhea
Read slides looking for gonorrhea
Vidant Beaufort Hospital
Washington, NC
11.2005
Processed units of blood and plasma upon arrival before putting into inventory
Crossmatched units for patients
Processed PT, PTT, and Fibrinogen
Performed Fetal Cell Count
Hematology:
Performed CBC’s, Body Cell Count, Sickle Cell, Read slide differentials
Urinalysis/Serology:
Processed Routine Urinalysis, HCG’s, Clinitest, and Icotest
Read urine slides
Rapid STREP, MONO, HIV, RPR, Chlamydia, RSV
Wet Mounts
Arterial Blood Gas
Chemistry:
Processed Comprehensive and Basic Metabolic Panels, Electrolytes, Liver Panels, and Lipid Panels
Neonatal Bilirubins
Drugs of Abuse
Processed Drug Screens
Microbiology:
Read cultures of urine, stool, throat, gonorrhea, blood, sputum
Read slides looking for gonorrhea
Bertie Memorial Hospital
Windsor, NC
08.2003
Processed units upon arrival before putting into inventory
Crossmatched units for patients
Processed PT, PTT, and Fibrinogen
Chemistry:
Processed Comprehensive and Basic Metabolic Panels, Electrolytes, Liver Panels, and Lipid Panels
Hematology:
Performed CBC’s
Urinalysis/Serology:
Processed Routine Urinalysis, HCG’s and Clinitest
Education
Bachelors of Clinical Science -
Winston Salem State University
Masters of Arts - Counseling
Liberty University
Bachelors of Arts - Psychology
Argosy University
Medical Laboratory Technician - undefined
Beaufort Community College
Skills
Perform competenciesundefined
Additional Information
I am the Safety Officer for the Hematology Department. I am in charge of several projects within the department and they are turn around times (TAT's) for CBC's, Urinalysis's, and PTT's and the census of the tests that we perform within the department. I am also a cohort in the Aspiring Allied Health Leadership Program
Certification
ASCP
Timeline
ASCP
10-2020
Transferred Vidant Bertie Hospital
05.2016
Medical Laboratory Technician
Solstas Laboratory Partners
05.2009 - 11.2015
Wayne County
05.2007
Vidant Beaufort Hospital
11.2005
Bertie Memorial Hospital
08.2003
Current Vidant Medical Center
Bachelors of Clinical Science -
Winston Salem State University
Masters of Arts - Counseling
Liberty University
Bachelors of Arts - Psychology
Argosy University
Medical Laboratory Technician - undefined
Beaufort Community College
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