Steemit Engagement Challenge S3-W1|All About My Job: Medical Laboratory Technician by @temitopef

Good day Steemians, I'm so delighted to be here to participate in Season 3 of Steemit Engagement Challenge, as it is another time of learning from and engaging with one another. Today I will write my third post for the week here in this community with the topic: "All about my Job". Go with me as I explain what I do at work and the obstacle I faced while doing my job.

As most of you here know that I am a Medical Laboratory Technician by occupation, my job has to do with performing laboratory investigations on samples such as urine, blood, sputum, feces, semen, and many others. It is done to obtain the patient's state of health and diagnosis of the result so that doctors can know the right treatment to prescribe or recommend for such disease.

Also, laboratory investigation is done to know the compatibility of the couple, parental paternity, and blood donor compatibility between the donor and the recipient. Now I will be explaining my job based on the highlights given:

Every day at work seems to be the same but the job done on a day can be more hectic than the previous day depending on the number of clients that patronized us in a day. My daily task goes thus:

Cleaning and Disinfecting laboratory benches: This is almost the first thing I do whenever I get to work in the morning, laboratory benches are where laboratory work is being done and it is important to clean and disinfect it from time to time to avoid the growth of unwanted micro-organisms or pathogens that can cause harm to my life and also the environment.

Every morning, when I enter the laboratory the first thing I do is to arrange all the used samples and other laboratory apparatus in their various place, after that, I clean the benches and disinfect them with bleach.

Switching on the Laboratory machine and Checking of Reagents: After cleaning the laboratory, I go straight to our hematology analyzer and switch it on, some of the machines can be switched on when there is need for them but hematology analyzer is a machine used to analyze the complete blood count of a patient and sometimes doctors do need the result urgently.

It takes up to 10 minutes for the machine to boot when it is switched on, and since the machine has UPS we normally switch it on in the morning to avoid delaying work and results. After that, I take stock of the reagent starting from the analyzer diluent and lyser to the other reagents to know the one that is about to finish or expired.

Collection and Proper labeling of Sample: This stage is very important and one has to be very careful when dealing with samples, either the one collected by oneself and samples collected by the doctors because a sample represent someone's life and any mistake might be costly. I would be listing the fact to check during sample collection below.

Performing Laboratory Investigation on Patients' Samples: After collecting and proper labeling of Samples, what next is investigating of the samples collected, there are some tests that the whole blood collected is to be used while with some we have to centrifuge the sample and get plasma/serum to be used for the investigation. After running the test comes recording of the result into our record book and patients' request form too before dispatching the result. There is no exact number of samples I collect and work on each day, I work base on the number of clients or samples that comes for investigation.

There is no job without obstacles, I have faced some obstacles while doing my job, and the most common challenge I do face is with Genotype result, some had done it before but while doing it at my place of work they got different result or a result that does not please them or their relationship and felt the result was not right.

An example is a pregnant lady that was asked to do some tests during ante-natal but the genotype result came out that she was Genotype AS, she got furious claiming she was AA, and that was the result she got during a test for her university admission.

This is one of my early days in the profession, even though I was sure of the result I still had some fear. When the scientist heard about the incident, the test was repeated and he got the same result, yet the lady refused to accept the result and threatened to sue our organization, after much deliberation, the solution is that she will repeat the result at two reputable laboratories, and the result was to be presented the following day.

It was only after she got the same result the following day that she accepted, she apologized and I can understand her fear, she got pregnant with an AS man thinking she was AA not knowing both her and her man have the same genotype.

I have great hope for myself in my job in the future and I would make sure I achieve all that I hope for, I hope to see myself in the research field and this can only be obtained by furthering my education to some certain level and major on research. This has been my dream for some time and I promised myself that I would work so hard till my dream is achieved. I want to be able to do some research, know more about the cause of some illnesses and provide a lasting solution to them. This is what I hope for in the future about my job and I will do my best to achieve it. So Help me God.

This article have been used to talk about what my job entails, my daily task in my place of work, the biggest obstacles I faced, and my hope for the future in my job. My job is a very wonderful one and a service to humanity, it is a job I love doing and have a great plan for it in the future. Thanks to @hot.news for this brilliant topic and this is where I will be stopping, thanks to everyone for reading.

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