cytotechnologist
ISCO: 2269. Skills: 55. Essential: 37.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply good clinical practices
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- biosafety in biomedical laboratory
- carry out flow cytometry
- cervical screening
- check the received biological samples
- chemistry
- clinical cytology
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct cancer screening tests
- cytopathology
- ensure public safety and security
- examine cell specimens microscopically
- fine-needle aspiration
- follow clinical guidelines
- follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health
- health care legislation
- hygiene in a health care setting
- infection control
- label medical laboratory samples
- maintain medical laboratory equipment
- manage infection control in the facility
- medical informatics
- microscopic techniques
- operate microscope
- perform gynecological examination
- professional documentation in health care
- provide test results to medical staff
- recognize cytologic abnormalities
- sterilization techniques
- tissue cytogenetics
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Supporting skills
- address side effects of menopause
- biostatistics
- conduct health related research
- coordinate the procurement of organs for transplantation
- deal with emergency care situations
- genomics
- interact with healthcare users
- interpret urology diagnostic tests
- medical genetics
- medical terminology
- observe confidentiality
- pedagogy
- perform virological test
- transplantation
- urogynaecology
- urolithiasis in the urinary tract
- use foreign languages in patient care
- work in a multicultural environment in health care