Skill Checklists

Medical Lab Tech

This checklist was electronically signed on (Today’s date)

Instructions: This checklist is meant to serve as a general guideline for our client facilities as to the level of your skills within your nursing specialty. Please use the scale below to describe your experience/expertise in each area listed below.

Proficiency Scale:

  • 1 = No Experience

  • 2 = Need Training

  • 3 = Able to perform with supervision

  • 4 = Able to perform independently

Medical Laboratory

Blood bank

Chem

Hemo

Micro

Serol

Procedure

Patient positioning

Fingerstick

Venipuncture

Warming the puncture site

Tourniquet application & removal

Decontamination of the puncture site

Tuberculosis exposure control plan

Post venipuncture site care

Order of tube collection

Equipment

Arterial blood gas kits

Occult blood packets

Heel warmers

Pin worm kits

Serum separators

Blood culture preparation kits

Centrifuge

Capillary blood kits

Bacteria media

Drug screen kits

Ova parasite containers

Legal blood draw kits

Paternity blood draw kits

RSV kits

Chemistry

Acetone analysis

Atomic absorption

B12/fiolates

CSF protein

Drug monitoring

Electrolytes

Electrophoresis

Gas chromatography

Hepatitis

Hormone testing

Immunoelectrophoresis

Include blood gas

Main chemistry unit

Osmolality

Stool analysis (fecal fats)

Thin layer chromatography

Thyroid testing

Tumor markers

RIA

Background counts

Counters

Curves/regressions

Data reduction

Instrumentation/gamma

Radiation safety techniques

Scintillation counter

Blood Bank

Antibody identification

Antibody titer

Blood irradiation

Component preparation

Coombs test

Direct

Indirect

Cross match

Donor unit collections

Emergency release

Freezing blood

Immediate spin cross match

Patient identification

Plasmapheresis

Plateletpheresis

Procedures

Rhogam

Antigen typing

Type, RH

Microbiology/Virology

Concentration techniques

Identification

Acid fast stain (fluorescent)

Acid fast stain (kinyoun)

Anaerobic culture

Anaerobic identification

Blood culture

C. difficile assay

Cell culture technique (viral)

Chlamydia culture

Chlamydia smear

Culture plating

Darkfield

Gram stain

India ink

KOH prep

Malarial examination

Myobacteria culture

Occult blood

Organism identification

Ova & parasite concentration

Trichcone

Wet mount

K.B.

M.I.C.

Virus isolation

Wet mount-motility

Urinalysis

Automated instrumentation:

Large volume automation equipment

Small volume automation equipment

Crystal identification

Macroscopic U.A

Microscopic U.A

Semen analysis

Hematology

Bleeding time

Body fluid count

CBC

D-dimer

D-dimer

Differential

Eosinophil count

Factor assays

Fetal hemoglobin

Fibrin split products/FDP

Fibrinogen

Lee-White clotting time

Platelet aggregation

Platelet count

PT & PTT

Reticulocyte count

Sedimentation rate

Special stains (PAS, peroxidase, leukocyte alkaline phosphatase)

Sickle cell prep

Thrombin time

Serology / Immunology

ANA

ASO titer

C3, C4, total complement

Cold agglutinins

C-reactive protein

ELISA testing

Febrile agglutinations

Fluorescent testing

FTA-ABS

FTA-ABS

Hemagglutination inhibition

LE cell prep

Monospot

Pregnancy testing

Radial immuno diffusion

Rheumatoid factor

Rheumatoid factor

RPR

Rubella serology

TORCH studies

National Patient Safety Goals

Accurate patient identification

Labeling

Effective communication

Infection control

Quality control/quality assurance

Assist with On-site procedure

Age Specific Competencies

Newborn / neonate (Birth-30 days)

Infant (31 days-1 year)

Toddler (2-3 years)

Preschool (ages 4-5 years)

School Age (ages 6-12 years)

Adolescents (ages 13-21 years)

Young Adult (ages 22-39 years)

Adults (ages 40-64 years)

Older Adult (ages 65-79 years)

Elderly (80+ years)

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