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O*NET detailed work activityOperate laboratory equipment to analyze medical samples
Stays humanHands-on work
7 jobs8 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Operate laboratory or field equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Controlling Machines and Processes. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 8 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Operate, calibrate, or maintain equipment used in quantitative or qualitative analysis, such as spectrophotometers, calorimeters, flame photometers, or computer-controlled analyzers.
- Operate computerized laboratory equipment to dehydrate, decalcify, or microincinerate tissue samples.
- Apply prepared specimen and control to appropriate grid, run instrumentation, and produce analyzable results.
- Operate computerized laboratory equipment to dehydrate, decalcify, or microincinerate tissue samples.
- Measure glandular activity, blood volume, red cell survival, or radioactivity of patient, using scanners, Geiger counters, scintillometers, or other laboratory equipment.
- Perform electron microscopy or mass spectrometry to analyze specimens.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Diagnose diseases or study medical conditions, using techniques such as gross pathology, histology, cytology, cytopathology, clinical chemistry, immunology, flow cytometry, or molecular biology.
- Conduct chemical analyses of body fluids, such as blood or urine, using microscope or automatic analyzer to detect abnormalities or diseases and enter findings into computer.