medical laboratory assistant
ISCO: 3212. Skills: 72. Essential: 29.
Essential skills
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- archive healthcare users' records
- automated analysers in the medical laboratory
- blood type classification
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- check the received biological samples
- communicate in healthcare
- conduct routine blood testing
- examine cell specimens microscopically
- identify patients' medical records
- label blood samples
- laboratory techniques
- maintain laboratory equipment
- maintain medical laboratory equipment
- microbiology-bacteriology
- mix chemicals
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- perform cerebrospinal fluid analysis
- perform laboratory tests
- perform sample testing
- prepare samples for testing
- record test data
- send samples to laboratory
- techniques of blood-sampling
- test chemical samples
- transport blood samples
- use chemical analysis equipment
- wear appropriate protective gear
- work safely with chemicals
Supporting skills
- analyse blood samples
- analyse cell cultures
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- biological chemistry
- blood collection on babies
- blood donation
- blood transfusion
- carry out flow cytometry
- carry out quality control in microbiology laboratories
- clinical biochemistry
- clinical cytology
- collect biological samples from patients
- conduct cancer screening tests
- cryopreservation
- data protection
- densiometry
- dermapathology
- dispose medical waste
- electroencephalography
- examine samples in dermatology
- explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients
- fine-needle aspiration
- histopathology
- immunology
- interpret hematological test results
- interpret medical results
- interpret urology diagnostic tests
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- microscopic techniques
- monitor stock level
- order supplies
- paediatric phlebotomy procedures
- perform bone marrow transplant
- perform fertility laboratory procedures
- perform PCR covid test
- perform reconstructive microsurgery
- perform stem cell transplantation
- stem cells
- sterilise medical equipment
- tissue cytogenetics
- urolithiasis in the urinary tract
- virology
- work with chemicals