TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES AND ITS IMPACTS ON THE WORK PROCESS IN CLINICAL ANALYSIS AREA: CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE TEACHING

Abstract

The aim of this study, in the science teaching field, was to go deeper on the debate of the formation of mid-level technician who works in the area of ​​medical tests, forward to technological changes in the work process. The subjects of the research worked in clinical laboratories of diagnostic routine from three Institutions in the city of Rio de Janeiro. As a data collection instrument, interview with open and closed questions were used. As results, we verified that in the fields of biochemistry and urinalysis, all techniques have become automated, differently from what we have observed in the other sectors in which only some of the techniques had been automated, with the exception of the parasitology sector, fully manual. This research pointed that although there was no impact on the working process of this area, the formation of the worker must be expanded to attend future trends of the news technologies.