SHIJIYA KARATTUKUDY SACHEENDRAN

• Support laboratory management in the maintenance of the Quality Management System in accordance with ISO 15189 standards .
• Responsible for the quality at work and carry out duties in accordance with laboratory and hospital policy's.
• Perform routine laboratory scientific work to the highest standard in accordance with the department’s policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Appropriately handle blood products according to guidelines
• Participating in mandatory training programmes.
• Maintain an up-to-date personal training/ retraining record in accordance with laboratory policy.
• Report all anomalies, near misses, non-conformances, incorrect results immediately to appropriate senior medical scientist.
• Participate in evaluating various equipment's, reagents, and consumables.

• Isolated and maintained cultures of bacteria and other microorganisms.
• Skilled in microbiology techniques, terminology and equipment and supplies.
• Knowledge of laboratory tests used in microbiology work.
• Log in patient specimens, maintain accurate log books of all performed procedures
• Forwarded the reports instantly to the physicians and surgeons in case of emergencies.
• Culture a variety of specimens i.e. sputum, wound, stool ect
• Conduct AST(eucast)
• Gram staining specimen slides for microscopic view, ability to read wet mounts
• Perform rapid tests: CDiff, Influenza A&B, Strep, Ecoli.
• Familiarity with basic microbiology SOP's and methods
• Identification of parasites and egg from stool sample
• Monthly maintains of equipment’s and reagents
• Check the purchase orders•
• Support laboratory management in the maintenance of the Quality Management System in accordance with ISO 15189 standards
• Participate in training and retraining as required to maintain competence and ensure records of training are maintained.
• Participate as required in the registration, custody and stock level of the laboratory reagents and other materials

Segregating samples

Safety procedures in lab

Sample processing in haematology & biochemistry dept.-

Following SOPs and ISO 15189.

Monitor and follow safety measures in laboratory

Maintaining, calibrating, cleaning and testing sterility of the equipment

Participate in performance review and development and in continuous professional development.

Recording and analysing data

• Perform routine work to the highest professional standards, as determined by the Laboratory Management Team
• responsible for the quality of work and carry out duties in accordance with hospital policy
• Participate as required in the registration and stock level of laboratory reagents and materials
• Ensure the policy in relation to laboratory record keeping is followed
• Assist in training staff as required
• Analytical and scientific techniques to monitor and study microbes such as bacteria, fungi and viruses.
• Supervise and perform tests on various microbiological activities on a regular basis
• Maintain knowledge on various testing methods and perform all manual operations on various supplies.
• Perform laboratory analysis on all materials after appropriate sterilization.
• Perform various cultures of microorganisms in isolation according to standard inhibition and ensure controls ,moisture and temperature.
• Monitor all physiological and morphological characteristics and identify microorganisms.
• Perform tests on all incoming ingredients and documents all records.
• Develop and prepare documents for all protocols.
• Perform audit on various environmental program and perform review for same.
• Develop various testing processes for all raw materials and equipment’s and monitor all finish products.
• Investigate all issues and prevent problems on samples.
• Maintain accurate records and perform tests on all activities conducted in laboratory.
• Develop and documents various microbiology laboratory processes and prepare final reports.
• Maintain purchase orders for all laboratory processes and monitor inventory for same.
• Supervisors the Quality Control in microbiology
• Check the automated process
• We have different department in microbiology, like serology, immunology, parasitological, bacteriology, virology, media preparation, sterilization, TB processing unit.
• I am very familiar with all these departments

• Conducting and supporting scientific investigations and experiments

• Planning, setting up and undertaking controlled experiments and trials

• Recording and analysing data

• Demonstrating procedures

• Collecting, preparing and/or testing samples

• Maintaining, calibrating, cleaning and testing sterility of the equipment

• Providing technical support

• Presenting results to senior staff

• Writing reports, reviews and summaries

• Keeping up to date with relevant scientific and technical developments

• Supervising staff

• Carrying out risk assessments

• Ordering and maintaining stock and resource

• Medical laboratory technologist is equal to medical scientist.

• Worked in microbiology dept. as technologist for 2 years.

• Verifying samples with requests.
• Conducting various tests in microbiology and serology , haematology, and biochemistry
• Verifying results and reporting.
• Stock management.
• Following SOPs and NABL standards
• Checking quality control.
• Participate in service development and improvement
• Participate in the on-call rota as needed.
• Safety practices such as in case of leaked or broken.

This was a 2 years full time course. Course:- First year: Biochemistry, Microbiology, Haematology

• First year: Biochemistry, Microbiology, Haematology, Blood Transfusion, Biostatistics, Laboratory Management, Medical Genetics.
• In second year: clinical microbiology Immunology and Molecular biology

• It was 4 years full time course
• In first year: Anatomy and physiology, biochemistry, parasitology and ENTOMOLOGY, general methodology, computer education.
• In second year: biochemistry, biophysics, bacteriology, immunology, mycology, hematology.
• In third year: biomedical instrumentation technology, clinical pathology and blood banking.
• In fourth year: diagnosis bacteriology, virology, serology, histopathological techniques, cytology and biostatistics.