What are some personal characteristics of a medical laboratory techician?

The personal characteristics of a laboratory technician might include:

• A pleasant personality and enjoys working with people;
• The ability to study and graduate from school;
• Steady hands to do blood draws;
• Ability to use Universal Precautions with every patient;
• The ability to do repetitive tasks;
• The ability to work independently with assigned tasks;
• The ability to work as a team with the lab;
• The ability to "take orders" from supervisors;
• The ability to understand a variety of test orders and what these tests require (for example, certain blood testing requires a specific amount of blood);
• The ability to continually learn, as medical science changes;
• The ability to run lab equipment;
• The ability to accurately record lab findings;
• etc.