The Pathology Grossing Technician (GT) (Healthcare Intermediate Professional) is an allied health professional who provides technical support in anatomic pathology under the direction of the gross room supervisor and surgical pathology faculty. The laboratory receives and processes specimens from the operating rooms and clinics throughout the hospital and health care organization.
The GT grosses simple anatomic pathology specimens as well as interacting with other allied health professionals, such as nurses and support staff, to ensure adequate and appropriate processing of patient specimens.
Additionally, the GT must have a broad understanding of the day-to-day operations of the gross room and is critical in maintaining organization and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:
Primary Responsibilities – 85%
Proper accessioning of surgical pathology cases
- Staining slides during intraoperative consultation
- Distributing appropriate specimen containers, requisitions and tissue cassettes
- Printing additional tissue cassettes
- Organizing tissue cassettes numerically
- Organization of work areas
- Monitoring supply inventory
- Answering telephones and faxing
- Grosses simple, non-complex surgical pathology specimens including core biopsies, small biopsies, bone marrows, skin biopsy, and excisions.
- Supports pathologists, residents, pathologists’ assistants, lab assistants and student interns when in the gross room.
- Uses cryostat to section intraoperative frozen sections and assists in staining frozen section slides.
- Triages specimens according to proper protocols and requirements for ancillary studies and/or biorepository tissue collection
Secondary Responsibilities – 15%
- Attends renal biopsy procedures to assess biopsy adequacy
- Facilitates organization of cassettes and transport to tissue processors
- Documents time data points for various tracking mechanisms
- Photograph pertinent gross specimens
