Karen Jensen
Herscher
Summary
Detail-oriented certified nursing assistant/lab technician with expertise in specimen collection, slide preparation, and tissue processing. Committed to a clean lab, maintaining laboratory safety and ensuring high-quality diagnostic materials.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scope Tech/Lab Tech
Digestive Disease Consutants
Bourbonnais
01.2015 - Current
- I started in the procedure rooms assisting with colonoscopies/endoscopies.
- Setting up and changing over rooms between patients
- Collecting and labeling specimens
- Assisting the physician during procedures with biopsy forceps and with hot/cold snares.
- In the lab, I helped prosses tissues and made slides with a water bath
- I stained slides with a standard H-E stain. Cleaned and maintained the stainer and stainer station. I did special stains when ordered by the Pathologist
- I trayed up slides with corresponding paperwork for diagnoses
- Filled slides and cassettes
Education
High School Diploma -
Clifton Central High School
Clifton, IL05-1994
Skills
- specimen collection
- slide preparation
- tissue processing
- Quality control
- biopsy assistance
- staining techniques
- laboratory safety
Certification
- Certified Nursing Assistant (no longer certified due to being a stay at home mom for 6 years)
Timeline
Scope Tech/Lab Tech
Digestive Disease Consutants
01.2015 - Current
High School Diploma -
Clifton Central High School