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Work History
Education
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Veronica Cox

Clinical Laboratory Scientist
Winterville,NC

Summary

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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