Medical Technologist Supervisor

Career Area: Health Care including Nursing

Occupation Group: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians

Salary

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A typical Medical Technologist Supervisor earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $62,560

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $62,462

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Works within a medical laboratory or healthcare facility. Supervises staff of medical technologists and technicians, ensures staff are in accordance with accreditation and regulatory bodies. Plans and assigns workloads, monitors test analyzes and specimen examinations, develops and updates technical policies and procedures, and monitors ongoing quality management activity.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Medical Technologist Supervisor is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Physical Abilities: Physical Abilities, which refers to the ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs. These abilities often require strength, endurance, flexibility, balance and coordination.
• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Research: Experience performing creative and systematic work to understand a product, market, or customer, either before building a new solution, or to troubleshoot an existing issue
• Building Effective Relationships: Building relationships is about your ability to identify and initiate working relationships and to develop and maintain them in a way that is of mutual benefit to both yourself and the other party. Good relationships are the key to getting things done and are essential when your success is dependent on others.
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Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Medical Technology: Working experience of Medical Technology, which can be considered as any technology used to save lives in individuals suffering from a wide range of conditions. In its many forms, medical technology is diagnosing, monitoring and treating most diseases or conditions.
• Quality Assurance and Control: Working experience with processes used to measure and assure the quality of a product and ensuring products and services meet consumer expectations.
• Laboratory Procedures: A laboratory (CommE or , AmE ; informally, lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.
• Chemistry: Chemistry is a branch of physical science that studies the composition, structure, properties and change of matter.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Medical Technologist Supervisor that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Diagnostic Testing:
• Transfusion Medicine: Transfusion medicine (or transfusiology) is the branch of medicine that is concerned with transfusion of blood and blood components.
• Transfusion: Blood transfusion is generally the process of receiving blood or blood products into one's circulation intravenously.
• Lab Safety: Working experience of Lab Safety, which is a set of overall laboratory safety rules to avoid disasters in a lab.
• Clinical Chemistry: Clinical chemistry (also known as chemical pathology, clinical biochemistry or medical biochemistry) is the area of clinical pathology that is generally concerned with analysis of bodily fluids for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Specimen Processing: Working experience of Specimen Processing. Specimen Processing receives incoming laboratory test specimens from patient floors and clinics (on and off-site) for the University of Michigan Health System. Staff in this unit complete the entry of orders into the Laboratory Information System which is maintained by Pathology Data Systems.
• Laboratory Safety And Chemical Hygiene Plan: Working experience of the Laboratory Safety And Chemical Hygiene Plan. The Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP) is a written program developed and implemented by the employer which sets forth procedures, equipment, personal protective equipment, and work practices that are capable of protecting employees from the health hazards presented by hazardous chemicals used in that particular workplace. It also meets the requirements of OSHA's Laboratory Safety Standards.
• Transfusion Medicine: Transfusion medicine (or transfusiology) is the branch of medicine that is concerned with transfusion of blood and blood components.
• Parasitology: Parasitology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the area of parasitology, including the biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, ecology and epidemiology of eukaryotic parasites, and the relationship between the host and the parasite.
• Lab Safety: Working experience of Lab Safety, which is a set of overall laboratory safety rules to avoid disasters in a lab.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Laboratory Supervisor/Medical Technologist
• Medical Laboratory Technologist Supervisor
• Laboratory/Medical Technologist Supervisor - Blood Bank
• Laboratory Supervisor - Medical Technologist
• Medical Laboratory Technologist - Supervisor

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