Starting Questions:

• Who are you are what is your job? Her name is Nikki Strong and she is the Chemistry Supervisor at Montrose Regional Health

• Do you like your job? She said that she loves her job

• What are your plans for Christmas? She is going to spend her Christmas with her family and her mom

In-depth Questions: 

• Q: What position did you start in? 

• A: She started at MRH as the point of care (Bedside testing) and education superviser. 

• Q: How did you move up in the company? 

• A: After about six months, she saw an opening in chemistry in the laboratory and took that position

• Q: How to get along with every coworkers? 

• A: In a leadership position, she oversees a lot of conflicts, but she is skilled in acting as a "middle man" to diffuse those situations

• Q: What is it like working in a smaller hospital? 

• A: She said that the leadership that cultivates the community is very vital to whether an environment can be helpful or not. The influence and examples that are set allows others below them to flourish. 

• Q: Is it easy to move up in the company?

• A: She said that in her overall career, she started as a phlebotomist, then pursued an education whilst working to get her bachelor's. She moved up to working the bench and at one point as a technical consultant of several labs. She then pursued a position of lab manager, to her current position as a lab supervisor. 

• Q: So there are opportunities to get your education while already working in the hospital?

• A:  There are quite a few paths to take, for example like getting an associates and MLT degree, or if you pursue a four year degree you can work as a lab technologist, etc. She said that there are many ways to work in the hospital, it just depends what kind of education you go for and what positions you want to fill

• Q: Did you always know that you wanted to work in the lab or did you come to this position by chance?

• A:  She said she took this position by pure opportunity. She explained that she took it because she also didn't like the more gruesome side to patient care like in nursing, so she saw working in the lab as her way of helping patients without facing that side of things.