Teena Xiong

Experience

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  UNC Health Blue Ridge

  Jan 2014 - Mar 2015

  Medical Laboratory Technician
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  Atrium Health

  Mar 2015 - now

  Medical Laboratory Technician

  Daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance on DXC(former instruments), AUs, Architects, and DXIs. Load patients sample in a timely manner, making sure samples are read and ran, and perform dilutions as neededAbility to be a driver: release results, call critical alert values and answer telephone calls professionallyWork in toxicology performing tacrolimus, cyclosporine, and sirolimus testing; perform maintenance and quality control on the GC as needed; run alcohol screen for methanol, ethanol, acetone, isopropanol, and ethylene glycol. Run patients on the DXH in hematology, perform manual diff and RBC morphology, scan smear for malaria, and perform buffy coat for WBC less than 1.0Handle body fluid such as synovial, pleural, and CSF; conduct WBC and RBC’s count on the hemocytometer. Run urine on the IRIS and Clinitek machine as needed; perform manual microscopic urine on questionable resultsWork in coagulation bench releasing PTT, PT, Fibrinogen, HEPXA, and Factors; call critical alert values and questionable results to doctors and nurses. Read and perform gram stain on body fluid and blood cultures; conduct MONOS, Cryptococcus, fecal lactoferrin, and Strep A testing Show less