Laboratory support technician vs hemodialysis technician

Differences between laboratory support technician and hemodialysis technician duties and responsibilities

Laboratory support technician example responsibilities.

• Manage company LIMS database system of test results and implement new and improve testing procedures.
• Manage patient, and corporate information with compassion and confidentiality.
• Improve preparation technique of media and reagents utilizing QC and GMP experience.
• Run, QC, and report PCR and EIA testing.
• Take QC and temperatures, decontamination.
• Used various centrifuges to spin the specimens.
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Hemodialysis technician example responsibilities.

• Maintain national certification as CCHT and attain CE's as required.
• Monitor patients receiving hemodialysis, analyze individual patient response to treatment, and change plan of care accordingly.
• Provide all facets of direct care to patients receiving dialysis treatments including bandaging and administering normal saline and heparin.
• Start dialysis by inserting needles into patient's site or catheter and connecting to machines.
• Water check, setting up machines, monitoring blood pressures, performing CPR, making bicarb/acid.
• Prepare and administer heparin medications.
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