# Workstation

A lab technician's everyday tool for processing protocol-driven samples through a paperless workflow.

## Workstation Types

### Accessioning

- Generate Unique Barcode Labels for Specimens  
- Document Case, Sample, and Study Information  
- Attach Documentation  
- Preprint Cassette and Slide Labels  
- View and Configure Derivatives for Samples  
- Accession Multiple Different Sample Types Together

### Grossing, Necropsy and Trimming

- Print or Auto-print Tissue Cassette Label Barcodes  
- Verify Submitted Cassettes  
- Document Gross Observations  
- Take or Attach Tissue Images and Add Annotations  
- Batch Samples to Processor Trays  
- Work with Clinpath Samples  
- Generate Hematology Slides from Blood Samples

### Fluid Samples

- Generate Cassettes for Tissue from Fluid Samples  
- Print or Auto-print and Verify Cytoslides

### Frozen Samples

- Generate Cryotomy Slides from Frozen Tissue  
- Print or Auto-print and Verify Frozen Slides

### Tissue Processing

- Document Movement of Batched Cassettes into and out of Tissue Processors  
- Log Tissue Processor Programs for Each Run

### Embedding

- Scan Cassettes to Document Embedding and Cold Plate Time  
- Batch Cassettes to Block Boxes

### Microtomy

- Print or Auto-Print Slide Label Barcodes  
- Verify Submitted Slides  
- Batch Slides to Stainer Racks  
- Batch Blocks to Containers  
- Take or Attach Block Images and Add Annotations

### Drying

- Batch Slides into and out of Ovens

### Staining

- Batch Slides into and out of Stainers  
- Track Staining Workload

### Coverslipping

- Batch Slides into and out of Coverslippers

### Stain Review

- Provide Slide Staining Feedback  
- Place Rework Orders on Jars, Cassettes, and Unstained Slides

### Slide Imaging and Analysis

- Document Slide Movement into and out of Imagers  
- Attach Digital Slide Images to Slides

### Delivery

- Batch Case Items to Containers and Send to Recipients  
- Ship Case Items to External Recipients

### Inventory

- Store Wet Tissue, Blocks, and Slides in Barcoded Containers  
- Monitor Rework Requests Placed by Pathologists  
- Dispose of Samples

### Quality Assurance and Control

- Document Quality Issues for Items  
- Document Resolutions for Issues  
- Document Reason for Change

### Search/Workqueue

- Search for an Item or Items Using Identifiers, Metadata, and Filters  
- Export Results to Excel  
- Filter Results by Rework and View Rework Requests