[Histonet] Histology assistants

[anita dudley]

tom do you know what the salary was for the lab assistants?  thanks anita 
dudley, providence hosp, mobile ala


>From: Rene J Buesa <rjbuesa <@t> yahoo.com>
>To: Tom McNemar <TMcNemar <@t> lmhealth.org>,"'histonet <@t> pathology.swmed.edu'" 
><histonet <@t> pathology.swmed.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Histonet] Histology assistants
>Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:02:20 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hi Tom:
>   The following is my experience: lab assistants are the best way of 
>increasing laboratory productivity and allowing the histotechs to do the 
>work they know and like to do.
>   In the last place I worked as supervisor, before retiring, a large 
>reference lab, the lag of uncut blocks left from days before amounted to 
>3-4 days work. I was able to hire 2 lab asistants and at the end of my 
>second month there were no uncut blocks left.
>   The tasks the 2 lab asistants (1 came at 5:30 AM and the other at 1:00 
>PM, with an overlap of 1 hour) were the following: prepare the water baths 
>for the first shift of HTs, change all reagents in the autostainer and in 
>the tissue processors, operate the slides and cassettes numbering machines, 
>keep the record of the blocks assigned to each HT and file them back, take 
>care of drying the slides, run the H&E autostainer and the automatic 
>coverslipper, match paper/work with the slides, deliver the slides to the 
>pathologists, pull blocks for special requests and some other tasks that 
>would be more costly if done by the HTs (the earn more money than the lab 
>assistants) and that should not be done by them. Sometimes they helped in 
>grossing but just the tasks related to  keeping records.
>   The lab assistants were also supposed to start getting an idea about the 
>histology work with the purpose to later on train in-house as a complement 
>to their studies, because since the beginning the idea was for them to 
>study as histotechs in the near future.
>   If you can hire lab assistants and train them well you wil see how 
>things will begin to run more smoothly in your lab.
>   Rene J.
>
>
>Tom McNemar <TMcNemar <@t> lmhealth.org> wrote:
>   I would really like some input on this.....
>
>How many places use assistants in Histology?
>
>What kind of things do they do? Gross? Enter/obtain specimens? File?
>
>Would really appreciate any and all thoughts. Thanks.
>
>Tom McNemar, HT(ASCP)
>Histology Co-ordinator
>Licking Memorial Hospital
>Newark, Ohio 43055
>
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