[Histonet] Histo Aide Duties

[Rene J Buesa]

Cover-slipping involves several decisions about size of the covers-lip, cleaning excess mounting medium and the like.
Is the final step in the preparation of the slide and could also include a quality control about the staining that could result in returning the slide to re-stain. That type of decision involves looking the section under the microscope and that is absolutely outside the qualification of an aide.
René J.

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Rene could you please explain why coverslipping is a technical skill. It would seem coverslipping slides would be like labeling slides with just little bit more skill. Thank you in advance for your thoughts. 

 
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From: Rene J Buesa <rjbuesa <@t> yahoo.com>
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Embedding NO
Cutting ABSOLUTELY NO
Staining, ONLY if with auto-stainer (putting slides in/out of the instrument)
Cover-slipping ONLY with automatic instrument (slides in/out)
Sticking labels to hand written slides if the slides are not pre-written 
Filing slides and blocks YES
Matching slides with paper work YES
Delivering slides to pathologists YES
Arranging blocks/slides to cut YES
Anything that does not involve a technical skill, training or certification.
A good laboratory aid doing all the above mentioned tasks can improve the histotechnologists productivity 2.5 times
René J.

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From: Matthew Lunetta <MLunetta <@t> luhcares.org>
Subject: [Histonet] Histo Aide Duties
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Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 8:01 AM


Hey Histo Netters,
For the CAP pro's; I have been wondering what duties can a non-certified histo-aide preform in a CAP facility?
Other than accessioning.
Embedding? Cutting? Staining? Where is the CAP line on what is technical and what is non-tecnical?
I am not fluent in CAP and would like to know what you all think.
Thanks,
Matt Lunetta
BS HT(ASCP)

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