Histology Technician

Responsibilities

• Preparing thin slices of human, animal, or plant tissue on slides for analysis.
• Recognizing factors that affect procedures and quality results, and taking appropriate action when corrections are necessary.
• Performing preventative and corrective maintenance of equipment and instruments.
• As needed, managing supplies and laboratory quality-control procedures.
• Examining, fixing, and processing the tissue for proper sample preservation.
• Surrounding the tissue with paraffin wax in a process called embedding.
• Cutting a tissue sample with a microtome or cryostat.
• Mounting the tissue sample on a slide.
• Staining or dying the sample to emphasize abnormalities.