Krystal Hopaluk

My duties as a Medical Laboratory Technologist 2 in Microbiology included :

- Complicated workup of microbiology specimens including carbapenemase producing organisms , difficult gram stains, all specimen types and testing

-Supervising day to day workflow and adjusting staffing , scheduling as required

-Monitoring and mentoring staff and students, as well as providing feedback and overviews

-Consultation with Medical Microbiologists

-Review of discrepant sensitivity patterns

-Instrument maintenance and troubleshooting including working with various vendors for resolution

-document review

-Work on special projects, research and studies

-Quality control review and troubleshooting

-Attending workplace planning meetings

-Conducting random retrospective bench audits and performance audits

My duties as a Medical Laboratory Technologist 1 Included:

-Performing, reading and interpreting gram stains

-Workup of various culture types using automated methods and biochemical testing

-Using LIS and Keistra software to generate quality results

-Performing and documenting Quality control and maintenance

-Setting up manual antibiotic testing and using CLSI to interpret

-Training students , new staff and residents on various culture types

-Introductory experience with molecular testing including preparing batches for PCR, running PCR machines, interpretaion and reporting of curves

Other experience included :

- Several months as a Laboratory Technologist 1 at the Northeast Center doing phlebotomy, basic chemistry, hematology and blood banking

- 4 week introductory training and job shadowing at the Canadian Western Dermatology Institute doing frozen sectioning and staining ( Moh's)

My duties as a Medical Laboratory Assistant included:

- Data Entry

- Phlebotomy

- Urinalyses

- Performing ECGs

- Packaging specimens for transport