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O*NET detailed work activityMaintain medical laboratory equipment
Stays humanHands-on care
8 jobs9 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Maintain medical equipment or instruments, under the O*NET work activity group Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 9 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Set up, clean, and maintain laboratory equipment.
- Maintain and calibrate radioisotope and laboratory equipment.
- Maintain laboratory equipment, such as microscopes, mass spectrometers, microtomes, immunostainers, tissue processors, embedding centers, and water baths.
- Resolve problems with laboratory equipment and instruments, such as microscopes, mass spectrometers, microtomes, immunostainers, tissue processors, embedding centers, and water baths.
- Set up, maintain, calibrate, clean, and test sterility of medical laboratory equipment.
- Maintain laboratory equipment such as photomicroscopes, inverted microscopes, and standard darkroom equipment.
- Adjust, maintain, or repair laboratory equipment, such as microscopes.