What are the responsibilities and job description for the Histology Technician position at MDA Edge?
Job Summary:
- Department: Histology
- Shift timings: 04:00-12:30 Monday to friday (5 Days/8 Hours)
- Per Week: 40 Hours
- Experience: 2 Years
- Preparing thin slices of human, animal, or plant tissue on slides for analysis by:
- Recognizing factors that affect procedures and quality results, and taking appropriate action when corrections are necessary.
- Performing preventative and corrective maintenance of equipment and instruments.
- As needed, management of supplies and laboratory quality-control procedures.
- Examining, fixing, and processing the tissue for proper sample preservation.
- Surrounding the tissue with paraffin wax in a process called embedding.
- Cutting a tissue sample with a microtome or cryostat.
- Mounting the tissue sample on a slide.
- Staining or dying the sample to emphasize abnormalities.
