[Histonet] Re: Is anybody hiring techs without a certification?

[Jennifer MacDonald]

The NSH and ASCP are well aware of the lack of schools, but are powerless 
to do anything about it.    With cutbacks in education and healthcare 
schools and hospitals are cutting back on training as it takes time and 
money.  What type of assistance are you speaking about for the OJT people 
who have the AA/AS?  The ASCP recognizes these individuals through route 2 
for the HT (ASCP) exam. 
One of the reasons that our program and others do not take more students 
is that we cannot find facilities that are willing to take on the clinical 
experience for students.  Many of the histology labs are unwilling or 
unable to train students.  What type of action would you like the NSH and 
ASCP to take?

Jennifer MacDonald




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Currently we have too few schools and not enough slots in the schools we 
have for Histology to grow ans educate people properly.  It is hard to 
tell if the ASCP and NSH are just unaware of the issues or not interested 
as we see schools close and career days at NSH for high school students 
yet no real action.   They need to assist what many of us are doing now - 
OJT with people who have the AA or AS degree and hope they stay in the 
field.  The majority of people I meet and tell what I do have no idea that 
the field of Histology exists or how important it can be to a patient 
having surgery and awaiting a diagnosis.  



I currently have two people we are training as we can't find qualified 
people here and at least they are the best we could find.  The second 
issue is pay and the fact that any Histology area controlled by Clinical 
Laboratory is in an uphill battle to get salaries raised as the CP people 
all seem to feel if you don't have a BS you can't rate better pay.  I do 
realize we have many  MTs in Histology and they usually great for us.  It 
is the management that cannot get by the requirements to help us go 
forward.  They should look at the fact many of the Histologist now working 
will retire in the next ten years and then where will they be in finding 
people for this field? 



Pam Marcum 

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Richmond" < rsrichmond @ gmail .com> 
To: histonet @lists. utsouthwestern . edu 
Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2011 12:38:38 PM 
Subject: [ Histonet ] Re: Is anybody hiring techs without a certification? 


Yvette asks: 

>>Is anybody hiring techs without a certification?<< 

Is anybody hiring techs WITH a certification? With a coming 
retirement, the two labs I'm working in now will have NO certified 
histotechs (total of four workers) - all OJT's . Some of them probably 
have the educational qualifications to sit the exam, but management 
isn't very sympathetic - I'll have to buy them a copy of the 3rd 
edition of Freida Carson's book, for starters. 

Bob Richmond 
Samurai Pathologist 
Knoxville TN 

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