Day 9 🧪 Welcome to 30 Days of ASCP: Ratchet Study Tips🤪🤏🏽🤏🏽🤏🏽 Today we’re finally clearing up reactive lymphocytes vs monocytes: the cells everybody loves to mix up on diff counts. The secret is chromatin first: reactive lymphs usually have fine chromatin and may show a visible nucleolus(especially immunoblasts), but not all reactive lymphs will have one, so don’t rely on that alone. They often have light to pale blue cytoplasm that hugs surrounding RBCs. Monocytes do not have nucleoli,

ASCP Exam Content Breakdown 🧪🔬📚 The ASCP exam is the exam that certifies medical laboratory scientists. Content breakdown is as follows: 🆎Blood Bank 17-22% 🧪Chemistry 17-22% 🩸Hematology 17-22% 🦠Microbiology 17-22% 💦Urinalysis and Other Body Fluids 5-10% 💉Immunology 5-10% 🥼Laboratory Operations 5-10% The exam will test you on both theory 📝 and procedure ⚙️ So the theory measures your skills to apply knowledge, calculate results, and correlate patient results to disease state. Procedura