Some of the typical duties of a clinical assistant include preparing and administering medications, taking vital signs of patient's, recording patient's medical history and
collecting specimens for laboratory tests.
At present, the museum employs 168 science staff, 27 of whom are curators — scientists who
collect specimens from around the world and maintain research labs to study the museum's collection.
In a back - office setting, medical
assistants collect specimens, take vital signs, educate patients, fill prescriptions, and help doctors with examinations.
A well - written resume sample for this job highlights duties such as preparing the room for the procedure, providing information and instruction to patients,
handling collected specimens, and updating records.
In these types of medical assisting classes students learn how to
collect specimens from patients, particularly blood specimens.
The researchers also
collected specimens of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito species responsible for transmitting malaria to humans in Africa.
Synopsis: A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while
collecting specimens on Mars.
The
researchers collected specimens found in waters characterised by either elevated or low levels of CO2, and placed them in specially - constructed «transplantation chambers», which were then lowered into areas both within and away from the volcanic vent.
The Last Days on Mars (PG - 13 for brief profanity) High attrition - rate horror flick about a crew of astronauts who mysteriously perish one - by - one
while collecting specimens on the surface of Mars.
Tracks collected specimens by initialing, dating, and noting times of collection; maintaining daily tallies of collections performed
William Henry Harvey, a colorful Irishman who traveled the nineteenth - century
world collecting specimens, became the father of modern - day phycology, that arm of botany that studies marine flora.
Wallace survived 12 years in the
tropics collecting specimens (Image: Evstafieff / Down House, Downe, Kent, UK / English Heritage Photo Library / Bridgeman)
By analyzing Proteus DNA from
previously collected specimens, Goric ki designed genetic probes, short stretches of genetic material that differentially link to its DNA but bypass that of other organisms.
After collecting specimens from Pacific Ocean sites, the team reared tube worm embryos to the larval stage by replicating the temperature and pressure conditions of the worm's natural environment, and closely monitored their development.
Prof Perissinotto and his NMMU colleague Dr Matthew Bird, together with water beetle specialist Prof David Bilton (Plymouth University),
collected specimens ranging from 1 mm to almost 5 cm in length (the tadpole eaters).
For example, in my own field of palaeontology, it is not unknown for someone to say to me: «Steve, I've
just collected this specimen that I suspect may be a new species.
As a child he showed considerable initiative in fossil hunting,
even collecting specimens from the discarded ballast of cargo ships.
Unfortunately, naturalists in the 1800s were
not collecting specimens for analyses we conduct today such as DNA sequencing.
Unlike birds or butterflies, the 4,000 or so bee species buzzing around the United States don't have identification traits that amateur enthusiasts can spot
without collecting specimens.
To address this problem, in 2015 a team of researchers, including Keiichi Kakui, a lecturer at Hokkaido University, and Megumu Tsujimoto, a postdoctoral researcher at Japan's National Institute of Polar Research, started researching marine specimens stored at the institute, as well as
newly collected specimens.
Dr Heterick spent two
weeks collecting specimens in the often rugged and forbidding terrain of Western Australia, while the team also asked a number of major museum collections to loan them specimens.
To this end, the scientists evaluated the available literature, examined material from museums and other institutes and single -
handedly collected specimens.
Examples of these ancient manuscripts and
collected specimens accompany the works of today in an eclectic but focused survey and a carefully orchestrated installation.
As well as poring over records and surveys from polar explorations - which go back to Victorian times - the
team collected specimens from the seas around the islands.
Apply knowledge of medical laboratory techniques to
accurately collect specimens, perform CLIA waived testing, and communicate laboratory test result to patients.
Scientists collected specimens and photographs of new records of marine life from the seamounts, including potential new species of fish, algae and invertebrates.
This includes jobs such as the administration of medication, measuring of vital signs, preparing instruments, setting out supplies, keeping records, and
collecting specimens of body fluid for any lab testing that may need to be done.
Essential responsibilities of a Patient Care Tech are helping patients with daily hygiene and using the restroom, maintaining patient rooms clean, monitoring patient vitals,
collecting specimens for testing, performing basic nursing duties such as changing bandages, answering to patient inquiries, drawing blood, and reporting patient condition.
And while they could not obtain a full - length DNA barcode from the mescal, when they repeated the process on the 95 percent ethanol preservatives used for the
freshly collected specimens, their success rate was near perfect.
Tracking patient vitals,
collecting specimen samples, and maintaining confidential patient and procedure records are just a few of many tasks I performed each day, consistently providing a superior level of compassionate patient care.