days in my life as a medical laboratory scientist (night shift, coding & vet visits)
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- in this video : join me for a week in my life in the lab, to include my first coding project, a vet visit, pet care, meal prepping & trying butterfly pea tea.
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You turned off the faucet with the paper towel! Love it! Bringing infection prevention home from work with you!
Right! Some of the best practices have become habit at home 😂
Silk robe and Tea! Giving that girl vibes!
I’ve been following your journey! Thank you for showing us a glimpse of what MLT life is all about! I just got accepted into a post-bacc program and I start this May! I’m so excited!!!!!
That’s so exciting! Congratulations on your acceptance! And good luck this summer!!
@@domilarae Thank you so much!!!! I’m both afraid and excited lol
You are doing amazing work, I Love it
I wanted to ask how you had time to work while you were in school because mine is an hour commute 7-3:30 5 days a week. Idk what your schedule was like during school but girl with this much studying and exams, how does one even work?!
I went back to school at the start of covid, so my classes were mostly from home! And I worked from home since most places were shut down. I worked full time for my state’s dept of public health as a case investigator right up until I had to go to clinicals, then my schedule for rotations was 6:30a-3:00p. I kept a part time evening job during clinicals, but it made it hard to study. My classmate worked as lab assistant, so they were able to gain a year of experience while in school. They also lived an hour from the school/their clinical site, I think they made it work by being scheduled on evenings and weekends
@@domilarae ohhh I see. That had to have been nice not having to lose time for studying by commuting back and forth and everything. I know my school offers during my clinical rotation time- same as your classmate- a chance to work as phlebotomy (or whichever rotation you’ve completed) as work after clinical/evenings and weekends, so I was thinking of doing that. However, yeah like you said, I’m afraid of it running into my time to study and get good grades for school. No pressure!!!! Lol
there is a toothbrush that fits over your finger, I find that I have better luck with that than the regular toothbrush.
Ive seen those in store! I will give it a try, thank you for the suggestion.
Omg I was in an honors society called tri-beta for bio in my undergrad and have a beta fish sticker on my laptop atm haha
I was in tri-beta too!!
@@domilarae yassssss 👏🏽
Starting my week tonight wondering where I would be at and this video says it all. I got a strong feeling I’ll end up in chemistry, what analyzer you work with?
😂😂 I work with roche cobas. How about you?
Do you think you could make a video with some tips about how to survive working night shift? I'm about to start night shift and I'm a little nervous 😅
That’s a great idea! Thanks for the suggestion. Congrats on your new job as well!! 😄
Thanks! 🥰 I'm really concerned about maintaining a work life balance..
@@erinconner9592 I had to learn to set boundaries between work and personal time so that I could still have a life! Lol so I can definitely relate. I feel like a big part of work-life balance is your work schedule. Night shift is nice once you adjust to sleeping during the day. For example - I never have to take off of work for appointments and doctor visits lol and the stores are empty when I go shopping because most people are at work 😂
Where do you live?
Georgia
My dog had really smelly breath. Then I took her for a dental cleaning and after it her breath never smelled again. Go figure
Oh wow glad the cleaning worked! I was thinking my dog needed a cleaning but the vet didn’t recommend. I did find a water additive that’s been working really well 😄
what are you specializing in?
I’m a generalist 😊
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What breed dog? And what’s her name❤
Her name is Daria! 🥰 She’s a lab-pit mix that I rescued a few yrs ago
@dominique
What are the qualifications needed to be a medical lab scientist...??
Like how many degrees bachelor's or masters..?
A bachelors in medical laboratory science at minimum to be an MLS, but there are masters programs too
@@domilarae to get into the medical lab major, do I need to complete a science bachelor degree?
No, you can get into the medical lab major by just taking the prerequisite courses.
@@domilarae tq
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Not you putting pup business out there!
I need suggestions 🤣
Please is biomedical Scientist and biomedical technician the same
And also I'll like to get more information about both of them.... the salary and high job prospect
It depends on your country?
@@domilarae UK
I work in America, so I have little information about UK. I think it is the same but different degrees. Technician has an associates. Scientist has a bachelors with more responsibilities in the lab. You should do your research on the pay and job prospects for your region.
@@domilarae do you have any information about clinical science
@@louisvuitton7605 I have a few videos on my channel for information on medical laboratory science
hi what chemistry analyzer were you using?
Roche Cobas 😊
It's amazing how different is your MLS work in the US from my MLS work in the EU
That’s interesting, what difference do you notice?
@@domilarae As I see in your videos, your work duties are similar to our med lab technicians. As a medical laboratory scientist (it's called here clinical biochemist or specialist in laboratory medicine) I can't do the maintenance on a chemistry machine or even made an assay by my hand. I can do it because I learned it and have a little experience in it, but my technicians would kill me if I ever try to do it. We usually "just" validate the results, interpret the results to the clinicans if needed, and if there's a problem with an assay (out of range, QC not working, extreme result, unexpected result.. etc) we have to help the technician to solve the problem or find out what have happened, introduce new assays, basically we are "team leaders". And we have scientific duties, study planning and writing papers to scienticif journals and teaching new technicians.
Oh wow! Is your role similar across lab depts like hematology, microbiology, and blood bank? My region of the US doesn’t differentiate MLS and MLT at the bench - same scope of practice but different pay! We are all trained and responsible for analyzer maintenance, qc analysis, troubleshooting, and result reporting/interpretations. MLS can progress to management roles (dept lead, supervisor, manager, etc) after gaining work experience and education. Lead techs help bench techs and handle correlations, linearity studies, assay validations. The supervisor manages staff and trains new mls/mlt/students. The pathologists contribute to research and scientific journals from my understanding.
@@domilarae So basically we're doing the same thing, except I don't do routine assays, just for research purpose. In my region every MLS have their on dept, for example I run the chemistry lab (chemistry, hematology, coag, urine, immunochem) and I have to help my colleague validating results in the immunology dept because of the short staff, but we do not like to influence between depts. Do you think, a european MLS has a chance to work in a similar lab like yours?
@@vgjk thanks for the explanation! I believe you can work in a similar lab. If you are interested in the US, most states just require a degree and national certification to work, preferably by ASCP (American society for clinical pathology). You may be able to find information online to take the ASCPi exam - it’s designated for international candidates.
You are so cool.
Thank you!!
I love how you take good care of your self, work, your beautiful dog, the fish and even the plants. Hope your pillow has both cold sides every night. Really enjoyed the vlog
Thank you! I’ve spent the last few weeks to try and have a better work-life balance. And, thank you for supporting my channel 💕😄
Hello, Love your content, I'm in school right now majoring in medical laboratory technology. Just a random question but do you do any kind of math in this field, if so is it hard?
Hi! You can expect to use math like algebra and statistics in the field. It’s not too hard, it just takes practice to learn it