Works within shifting scheme: eight (8) hours per day, 40 hours per week regardless of holidays.
Reports and/or refers to the Section Head and Chief Medical Technologist.
2. Performs the following routine and/or special procedures:
• Blood Banking
a. Blood Component Preparation
b. Blood letting of donor
c. Crossmatching (Manual & Microtyping System)
d. Donor Screening (Interview and Serologic Testing)
e. Malarial Smear screening
f. Transfusion Reaction Investigation
• Clinical Chemistry
a. Blood Chemistry (Glucose, Lipid Panel, Electrolytes, etc.)
b. Blood Gas
c. Glycosylated Hemoglobin
d. Other Body Fluids (Pleural, Pericardial, CSF, etc.)
e. Urine Chemistry (Random/ 24-hr)
• Clinical Microscopy
a. Fecalysis with Parasitology
b. Mucin Clot test (Manual)
c. Occult Blood in Stool
d. Semen Analysis
e. Urinalysis
f. Urine, 24-Hour Collection
• Hematology, Coagulation & Hemostasis
a. Bleeding Time (Ivy Method & Simplate Method)
b. Clotting Time (Lee & White Method)
c. Complete Blood Count
d. Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate
e. Lupus Erythematosus slide preparation
f. Manual Cell Counts (CSF, Pleural, Peritoneal, Pericardial, Synovial)
g. Manual Differential Count (CSF, Blood, Pleural, Peritoneal, Pericardial, Synovial)
h. Osmotic Fragility Test (Manual)
i. Partial Thromboplastin Time (Semi-Automated)
j. Prothrombin Time (Semi-Automated)
• Immunology and Serology
a. Hepatitis Panel – Qualitative & Quantitative
b. HIV Testing - Qualitative & Quantitative
c. PSA Total – Fully Automated
d. Thyroid Panel – Fully Automated
e. Troponin I, Quantitative
f. CEA – Quantitative
g. AFP – Quantitative
h. CRP, RA/RF, ASNA, AO (Manual, Latex)
i. Treponema pallidum antibody testing – Qualitative
j. S. typhi IgM Testing – Qualitative
k. Dengue IgG/IgM Antibody – Qualitative
l. Influenza A & B Antigen Testing – Qualitative
• Microbiology
a. Media Preparation
b. Plating
c. Sensitivity Testing (Manual)
d. Biochemical Reaction Testing (Manual & BBL Crystal)
• Histopathology
a. Preparation of Cell Block, Cytology of body fluid
b. Cervicovaginal smear by Papanicolaou staining
c. Prepares formalin for biopsy preservation
3. Performs other duties and responsibilities which may be assigned by the immediate superior.