Self-Management and Workload Prioritization in Histopathology Lab

This assignment delves into the critical aspects of self-management and time prioritization within the field of histopathology. The student, working in a histopathology lab, emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and staying updated with the subject matter. The assignment highlights the role of time management in handling workload, ensuring accuracy, and improving the efficiency of lab procedures. It discusses the use of personal time management graphs, multitasking, and reagent preparation to optimize time utilization. Furthermore, the assignment references studies on time management skills across different demographics, including age, gender, education, and job rank, underscoring the need for individuals to develop managerial skills. The conclusion stresses the importance of understanding one's strengths and weaknesses to enhance performance in a histopathology lab setting.

Supervisor’s initialsStudent name and number:
Mohammed s3455221
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A person is capable of practising his or her profession safely via applying knowledge
and skills. It is under these circumstances that we can entitle the person as “fit to practise”.
However, professional performance is not only about fitness to practise. Professional
performance also shares inherent relationship with the confidence in profession or the
regulatory process in which the individual is participating. Moreover, professional
performance also depends upon public protection and cast a huge impact on the same. Thus
professional performance is not solely associated with professional practise1.
My area of profession is histopathology. Histopathology is the branch of biological
science that deals with microscopic examination of tissues in order to study the process of
disease manifestation in details2. So in order to practise my profession with confidence, I
always try to keep myself updated about my subject. Moreover, in order to increase my
knowledge horizon, I attend online courses and seminars. These classes assist to know my
subject from the grass-root level, helping me to unearth several crucial aspects of the subject.
Histopathology requires microscopic examination of biopsy, especially with the specimens
collected from the cancerous tissues. My practise in a histopathology lab helps to know more
about microscopic analysis of the tissue sample and thereby helping me to concentrate more
on the practical aspect of the subject.
Time management
Time management is ability to plan, manage and control specific amount of time
spend on a particular activity. Time management is an important aspect as it helps to clear
workload within shortest period of time and priorities on emergency tasks. Time management
1 Fitness to Practise: What does it mean? [Internet]. 1st ed. Health & Care Professions Council; 2017 [cited 28
October 2017]. Available from:
http://www.hpc-uk.org/assets/documents/10004B32FitnesstoPractise,whatdoesitmean.pdf
2 Lennert K. Histopathology of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas: based on the Kiel classification. Springer-Verlag;
2013 Jul 2.
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Supervisor’s initialsStudent name and number:
Mohammed s3455221
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is important key to ensuring personal discipline, maintaining high quality and accuracy of
task in hand.
I manage time by multitasking activities that requires long time to be accomplished.
This is done through ensuring that during breaks and offs am busy doing academic work and
research concerning my area of specification. I utilize also this time to analyses complex
laboratory data and summarize my lab reports. I have also come up with my own personal
time management graph to ensure I perform maximally. The graph helps me to balance all the
activities that am supposed to undertake. Such a graph is shown below
When am doing procedures which require long time to generate the results and there is
incubation time then I utilize the latter time by performing other procedures like preparing
reagent. This reduces concurrency time which was to be done at one time and enables
different tasks to be done at same time. Through proper time management it increases the
accuracy and efficient of the results and save time. Good time management about establishing
techniques and tools and putting them into practice by enhancing habits or work patterns that
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Supervisor’s initialsStudent name and number:
Mohammed s3455221
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are effective. These patterns eventually form the procedural activities that one can perform
them with ease.
The studies carried out by (Mohammadian A, Jahangri S. A, Naghizaeh Bagh A, Pour
Fizi F. A , 2006) Indicates that time management differs with age, gender, education and job
rank. Studies also showed that managers were at 57.7% in terms of time management as
compared to other employees who were lower. This calls for me to start acting, thinking and
behaving like a manager of my own and especially the issue of time. Ensuring that there is
good flow of work in my desk and that I do not hinder the persons who need my service is a
key to this success. The capabilities of managers are expected to rise as their experience, age
and education increases with time. The finding by (Liu O. L, Rijmen F, MacCann C, Roberts
R. D, 2009) shows that female has a higher time management skill than male. This concludes
that the role of gender in work force determines the time management skills and experience
contributes to effective procession of accuracy in terms. It is for this reason that I have to
work out my gender inbuilt qualities that may hinder my performance during the placement.
This is aimed at ensuring maximum yield of the time I will be working in the lab.
Thus from the discussion it can be concluded that time management and regular
practise is an important aspect for the staffs who are working in a histopathology lab. So in
order to manage the time effectively, the staffs first need to understand their abilities,
weakness and strength and then work accordingly via increasing their knowledge and skill in
this subject. Proper study and practise will help them to work on their weakness and thereby
enhancing their level of performance in the lab.
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Bibliography
Aldridge J, Bray S, David T. Medical student fitness to practise committees at UK medical
schools. 2017.
Liu O. L, Rijmen F, MacCann C, Roberts R. D. (2009). The assessment of time management
in middle school students. Personality and individual differences, 174–179.
Mohammadian A, Jahangri S. A, Naghizaeh Bagh A, Pour Fizi F. A . (2006). Study on Time
Management Skills in Ardabil University of Medical Sciences (ARUMS) Managers.
Journal of Health Administration, 54-56.
W Lauder, R Watson, K Topping. (2008, july 10). An evaluation of fitness for practice
curricula: self-efficacy, support and self-reported competence in preregistration
student nurses and midwives. journal of clinical nursing, 17(14), 1858–1867.
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Supervisor’s initialsStudent name and number:
Mohammed s3455221
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New References
1. Fitness to Practise: What does it mean? [Internet]. 1st ed. Health & Care Professions
Council; 2017 [cited 28 October 2017]. Available from:
http://www.hpc-uk.org/assets/documents/10004B32FitnesstoPractise,whatdoesitmean.pdf
2. Lennert K. Histopathology of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas: based on the Kiel classification.
Springer-Verlag; 2013 Jul 2.
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Supervisor’s initialsStudent name and number:
Mohammed s3455221
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Supervisor Statement:
It is not the supervisor’s role to correct student work for academic competency requirements.
Supervisors will read, make notations of inaccuracies, initial each page and sign the final
competency as to the accuracy of information relating to the laboratory; students are not
to submit further corrected drafts for signing off. Supervisors may wish to provide feedback
on grammar and spelling, or anything else you feel the student may need, which the student
can use for future competencies.
Supervisor name: _______________________________
Supervisor signature:_____________________________
Date:_____________________________
Comment:
Information Accuracy: Major errors Some Errors Good (few errors)
Excellent
Grammar and spelling: Major errors Some Errors Good (few errors)
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