Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Per Diem, Day Shift

Adventist Health • Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

The Clinical Laboratory Scientist prioritizes and performs a wide variety of clinical laboratory tests on biological specimens, then reviews, evaluates, documents, and reports results. The role protects patient confidentiality and follows laboratory safety and maintenance protocols. It may also train and supervise trainees, laboratory assistants, and clerks as needed.

The position is with Adventist Health White Memorial, a healthcare provider in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. The organization operates a 353-bed hospital, medical office buildings, residency programs, comprehensive cancer care, and other services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in medical technology, clinical laboratory science, biological sciences, chemical sciences, or allied health technologies, or equivalent.
• Valid Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license in the state of employment; required in California.
• Receive all required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter where applicable; medical and religious exemptions may apply.

Nice To Haves

• Clinical laboratory experience.
• Current certification from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) or National Credentialing Agency for Labs (NCA).

Responsibilities

• Use positive patient identification procedures to protect specimen integrity throughout pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical testing.
• Collect specimens, including performing phlebotomy as necessary, and label, handle, preserve or fix, process or prepare, transport, and store them properly.
• Follow HIPAA and other patient confidentiality guidelines and regulations.
• Prioritize laboratory orders, including STAT, ASAP, routine, and timed studies, and perform testing across areas such as chemistry, coagulation, hematology, special chemistry, urinalysis, blood bank, serology, immunology, bacteriology, microbiology, and referral testing.
• Follow prescribed quality assurance policies and procedures and perform, evaluate, and document quality control checks.
• Review test results and assess their validity and accuracy in relation to procedure manuals, expected results, test interdependencies, physiological conditions, patient age and normal values, controls, linearity errors, instrument codes, and delta checks.
• Correlate test results with diagnoses and question incompatible results.
• Document and communicate test results thoroughly and expedite critical values and results to appropriate clinicians.
• Dispose of contaminated materials and equipment according to policy and clean the work area after each test.
• Maintain, troubleshoot, and calibrate equipment and instrumentation as needed.
• Inventory and restock reagents, calibrators, controls, and supplies as needed.
• Participate in collecting and evaluating data for Performance Improvement evaluations.
• Document adverse events using the incident reporting tool.
• Orient, instruct, and supervise laboratory assistants and clerks as needed.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers