Quality Control Medical Laboratory
Resume:
Elaine Keogh
AKA Lainey Keogh
BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science (2005)
Certificate Medical Laboratory Science (2003)
Honours Leaving Certificate (2000)
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY38BN
United Kingdom
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Profile
Ambitious and driven professional with expert knowledge of the scientific and healthcare sectors. Strong interpersonal skills, a friendly and approachable disposition. A hard worker, can work efficiently on own initiative or can integrate easily into a team environment.
Career
History
Self Employed, Online Business
April 2014 – Present
For the past 9 years + I have been working for myself. I have helped create and run numerous online businesses. Through building a successful online presence, via social media, I have built good working relationships with numerous companies and worked on many large scale advertising campaigns. Working on such campaigns has instilled me with initiative to work to a schedule and organisational skills to adapt to a variety of different requests. As I have had a full and varied work load, I am capable of multitasking to a high and efficient level.
I have gained a lot of skills both professioinal and personal. I can confidently record and edit instructional videos and am proficient at interfacing with international clients online.
Most Recently I trained in Aesthetics. Taking from my scientific training I gained expertise in the administration of dermal filler, anti wrinkle toxin and Vitamin infusion.
Basic Grade Medical Scientist
Blood Transfusion Laboratory,
The Adelaide and Meath incorporating
the National Children’s Hospital (AMNCH)
Dublin, Ireland
June 2005 – April 2014
AMNCH is a 600 bed hospital, employing almost 3,000 people in Dublin, Ireland. It provides child-health, adult, psychiatric, age related and emergency healthcare on one site for a large catchment area. I entered the organisation as a graduate medical scientist in the blood transfusion laboratory which acquired ISO accreditation in 2008. In 2006 I began working on-call processing all urgent patient samples in the Blood Transfusion laboratory, as well as the Haematology and Coagulation laboratories in an emergency capacity outside of my routine hours.
Duties Include:
Grouping of both routine and urgent patient samples utilising manual and automated techniques.
Crossmatching and issuing blood and blood products.
Investigation of atypical antibodies and antigen typing of patient’s samples and donor units.
Internal and external quality control and batch acceptance of all equipment and reagents to ISO 15189 standards.
Management and traceability of all blood stocks and products within the Blood Transfusion laboratory.
Daily examination of the REES environmental system within the laboratory.
Review of standard operating procedures in place in the laboratory on a continuous basis.
Reviewing and authorising of full blood counts in the Haematology laboratory on-call.
Reviewing and authorising of coagulation screens in the Coagulation laboratory on-call.
Locum Medical Scientist
Blood Transfusion Laboratory,
St. Vincent’s University Hospital. (SVUH)
Dublin, Ireland
June 2004-Sept 2004
In this position I was the summer vacation locum cover in the Blood Transfusion laboratory in SVUH, Dublin.
Duties Included:
Grouping of patient samples utilising manual and automated techniques.
Crossmatching and issuing blood and blood products.
Investigation of atypical antibodies and antigen typing of patient’s samples and donor units.
Performing daily quality control on equipment and reagents in use in the laboratory.
Laboratory Technician.
Research and Development department
C & D Foods, Longford, Ireland
June 2002-Sept 2002
In this position I gained experience in an industrial setting in the research and development department of a busy pet food factory.
Duties Included:
Evaluating nutritional contents of the produce.
Quality controlling of effluent produced by the factory.
education
Bachelor of Science (2.1 Hons)
Major: Clinical Chemistry
Minor: Haematology/Blood Transfusion
Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Sept 2000 to Jun 2005
Thesis
“Validation of the Diamed Gel Station for Detection of Weak and Partial D”
The National Maternity Hospital @ Holles St. Dublin.
Jan 2005 to June 2005
Clinical Placement
Haematology, Blood Transfusion, Biochemistry, Histology, Microbiology.
St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin.
Sep 2002 to June 2003
Certificate Medical Laboratory Science
Haematology, Blood Transfusion, Biochemistry, Histology, Microbiology.
Dublin Institute of Technology.
Sep 2000 to Jun 2003
Key Skills
Laboratory Accreditation
In the run up to laboratory inspections, prior to accreditation being achieved in AMNCH, group effort and co-ordination were crucial. I built strong professional bonds with all members of staff which aided in the accreditation process running as smoothly as possible. I attended many EU directive meetings with all the members of staff where we discussed and developed ideas.
Journal Clubs
Always eager to learn and progress further, Journal Club attendance and participation is a constructive and enjoyable means to educate myself and maintain a current knowledge of the medical and scientific world.
Conferences
When given the opportunity to attend conferences relating to my career I am always enthusiastic. National Haemovigilence conferences in particular are worthwhile as they give an insight into haemovigilence issues on a nationwide scale as apposed to strictly internal.
Courses
Four years of employment in one institution has granted me the opportunity to attend various different courses to help develop my skills as a competent and dependable member of staff. Courses included customer care, fire safety, manual handling and non-violent crisis intervention. These courses improved my communication skills and provided me with the skills to manage difficult situations which can arise.
Information
Technology
Expert in using the internet as a tool for knowledge acquisition. Fully proficient in Winpath Laboratory computer system. Excellent skills in MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint. Good working knowledge of hardware and common software applications.
Interests & Activities
I weight train 4/5 days a week, this is one of my favourie ways to relax, unwind and stay helathy.
I love to cook and am quite creative in the kitchen, one of my passions in creating original helathy recipes.
I have 3 dogs which I care for and love taking for walks daily in the countryside.
I also have a keen and diverse interest in dance ranging from classical ballet to hip-hop and contemporary. I successfully completed all Royal Academy of Dancing exams in classical ballet. I have a great appreciation of art from studying it in school to enjoying it as a hobby.
Referees
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