Experience
- Minimum 2 years hospital laboratory experience required
- Grossing experience required
- Previous travel experience required
License & Certification Required
- CA state license preferred
- Pending license accepted
- ASCP-HT certification required
Skills Required
- Additive fixatives
- Automated/Manual Microtome
- Automatic tissue processor
- Basic dye stains
- Calcified/decalcified tissue
- Cell component preservation indications and contra-indications for use
- Coagulant/non-coagulant fixatives
- Connecting and muscle
- Cuts tissue sections using microtome and cryostat
- Cytoplasmic stains
- Decalcification
- Dehydration/types of agents
- Embedding GI specimens
- Embedding large specimens
- Embedding molds
- Embedding skin techniques
- Embedding smalls and bigs
- Frozen section/tissues
- Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stain
- Immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining
- Microtomy of Fatty Tissue
- Microtomy of frozen sections
- Microtomy of hard tissue
- Periodic Acid-Schiff (PAS) stain
- Prepares frozen section and mounts sections on glass slides
- Prepares slides for staining
- Shave biopsies
- Thin Prep
Desired Skills
- Charting system experience with Epic preferred
- CYTOLOGY skills such as preparing thin prep, cell block, and cytospin, gyn specimens
