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2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

HTC 203 - Histotechnology Laboratory Clinical 2

3 credit hours - 160 hours of clinical; one term.
Perform advanced histotechnology procedures in a clinical setting. Prepares students for national certification as a histotechnician. Clinical fee $127.

Prerequisite(s): HTC 202  with a grade of C or better.

Location(s) Typically Offered: Off Campus (OF)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Spring

Course Outcomes:
 

  1. Receive, accession, and process tissue specimens, including staining of specimens, into the histology laboratory at a local hospital anatomic histology laboratory.
  2. Assist with gross examination and frozen section procedures in histopathology.
  3. Perform immunostaining and other immunohistochemical techniques used in the histology laboratory.
  4. Prepare dilutions, percent solutions, and molar solutions in the histology laboratory. 
  5. Adhere to all safety regulations and protocols that must be followed to ensure safety in the histology laboratory.
  6. Demonstrate professional conduct and interpersonal communication skills with the clinical site laboratory personnel, other health care professionals, and the public.
  7. Recognize the responsibilities of other laboratory and healthcare professionals and interact with them with respect for their jobs and patient care.
  8. Exercise principles of management, safety, and supervision, as the primary analyst making specimen- oriented decisions on predetermined criteria, including a working knowledge of criteria values.