Research phlebotomist vs research technician

Differences between research phlebotomist and research technician duties and responsibilities

Research phlebotomist example responsibilities.

• Perform EKG's, give meals by correct proportions and document all actions.
• Complete patient EKG's while identifying and resolving electrocardiographic error messages.
• Evaluate quality control within laboratory using standard laboratory test and maintain compliance with CLIA, OSHA, safety and risk-management guidelines.
• Transmit results to agents and laboratory following all HIPPA rules and regulations.
• Exercise patient's HIPPA rights and concerns, document specimen origins, dates and times.
• Use standard equipment, including vacutainer tubes, butterfly needles, syringes and CLIA waiver PT/INR machines.
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Research technician example responsibilities.

• Manage a DNA database and work with researchers to retrieve or send out samples and results.
• Lead experiments to assess survivor behavior differences in zebrafish contaminate with dietary mercury.
• Prepare reagents for use in processing samples, DNA and RNA extractions, and QC.
• Investigate and validate various acute phase protein assays as OA biomarkers in rodent animal models.
• Perform DNA extraction and analysis for the purpose of identifying bacterial strand for waste stream characterization.
• Extend course knowledge of CRISPR to experiment.
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