My job!

I have the best job ever! I am going to Florida for my job on Sunday! I will be inspecting 6 different hospitals in 4 days. I won't lie its going to be a TON of work, but i'll be in 80 degree weather and eating 5 star meals every night and staying in my own suite :) Not to mention i will be away from this place...

I want to explain my job a little more, I am a Medical Laboratory Scientist. Any blood tests you get drawn at the hospital or doctor's office come to me. Yes this means I know more about people than I want to. No I can't tell you any of it, which is definitely a good thing. I get to save lives every day, sometime I have more of an impact than others but still it counts. My first trauma was a bi-lateral stabbing, we transfused 26 units in 90 minutes. Dr. Stults told the lab that we saved this person's life. Talk about a rewarding compliment.

The other part of my job is called Point of Care, I am in charge of the testing that the nursing staff at Valley View  gets to perform bed side. It is a pretty big position and I still get nervous because some of the nurses I interact with have been nursing since before I was born. But so far I feel comfortable with the staff I have.

I am still going to school, I will be doing the same thing I do know only i'll get paid better. These next few pictures are of stuff I've done for class.

This bug is E.coli

 Also E.coli on a different plating media

This is actually a stool sample that is plated on a media that 

makes normal flora grow florescent orange