Lab Work

15 hours ago, Mary3010 said:

As a nurse have you had the opportunity to do laboratory work as a nurse? e.g using a petri dish to examine something or other tests to determine the health of a patient.

All laboratory work is done in the Laboratory by technicians that have had schooling to do the testing.

15 hours ago, Mary3010 said:

If not, would research nursing involve this?

Clinical Research Nurses develop and implement studies to investigate and provide information on new medications, vaccinations, and medical procedures. They assist in providing evidence-based research that is essential to safe and quality nursing care.

They do not do lab tests.

If you want to work in a laboratory, then look into Medical Laboratory Scientist/ Clinical Laboratory Scientist.

Thanks for that information! I just wasn't sure because I have heard of someone working as an RN in haemodialysis and as an RN in pathology. They studied nursing and a separate course in phlebotomy and another as a clinical/medical laboratory technician. Maybe it's more research nursing.

So would a nurse be providing the samples for the lab technicians to investigate then? e.g blood samples etc.