Example of Cytotechnologist Job: Stain, mount, and study cells to detect evidence of cancer, hormonal abnormalities, and other pathological conditions following established standards and practices.
Daily Life Of a Cytotechnologist
- Prepare and analyze samples, such as Papanicolaou (PAP) smear body fluids and fine needle aspirations (FNAs), to detect abnormal conditions.
- Document specimens by verifying patients’ and specimens’ information.
- Adjust, maintain, or repair laboratory equipment, such as microscopes.
- Assign tasks or coordinate task assignments to ensure adequate performance of laboratory activities.
- Provide patient clinical data or microscopic findings to assist pathologists in the preparation of pathology reports.
Important Job Skills
Cytotechnologists state the following job skills are important in their day-to-day work:
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Tools & Technologies Used by Cytotechnologists
Although they’re not necessarily needed for all jobs, the following technologies are used by many Cytotechnologists:
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- MEDITECH software
- Laboratory information system LIS
- Sunquest Information Systems Sunquest Laboratory
- STARLIMS
- CPSI CPSI System
- Orchard Software Orchard Harvest LIS
- Healthvision TDSynergy LIS
- Comp Pro Med Polytech
- Custom Software Systems StarLab
- Elekta Impac Software IntelliLab
- EpicLab Laboratory Information System
- GE Healthcare Centricity Laboratory
- HEX Laboratory Systems LAB/HEX
- Clinical Software Solutions CLIN1 Suite
- LabSoft LabNet
Becoming a Cytotechnologist
Education needed to be a Cytotechnologist:
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