Job Summary:

Under the direction of the Mohs Surgeon/Mohs Lab Director, prepares, embeds, freezes, cuts and stains tissue received from surgery.

Essential Responsibilities:

+ Receives and organizes incoming specimens.
+ + Properly performs grossing techniques to ink and embed tissue ensuring complete representation of vital surgical margins and maintain proper orientation.
+ + Prepares sections of human tissue for immediate examination using rapid tissue processing and frozen section technique to freeze, cut, mount and stain tissue specimen received from surgery.

+ Perform initial screening under microscope to ensure tissue preparation meets laboratory requirements.

+ Reports deviations from norm or any abnormalities to the Mohs surgeon for further study.

+ Documents daily equipment maintenance and temperature checks.

+ Reports any needed repairs to the unit Manager.

+ Performs Quality Assurance testing as sp...