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The personal characteristics of a laboratory technician might include:

  • A pleasant personality and enjoys working with people;
  • The ability to study and graduate from school;
  • Steady hands to do blood draws;
  • Ability to use Universal Precautions with every patient;
  • The ability to do repetitive tasks;
  • The ability to work independently with assigned tasks;
  • The ability to work as a team with the lab;
  • The ability to "take orders" from supervisors;
  • The ability to understand a variety of test orders and what these tests require (for example, certain blood testing requires a specific amount of blood);
  • The ability to continually learn, as medical science changes;
  • The ability to run lab equipment;
  • The ability to accurately record lab findings;
  • etc.
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