Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Full-time, Day Shift

Adventist Health•Los Angeles, CA

1d•$51 - $70

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 353-bed hospital and part of an integrated health system serving communities across the West Coast and Hawaii. The organization requires associates to receive applicable required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter; medical and religious exemptions may apply.

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.

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 and ensure specimen integrity throughout pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical testing.
Collect, label, handle, preserve or fix, process or prepare, transport, and store specimens, including performing phlebotomy when necessary.
Follow HIPAA and other patient-confidentiality guidelines and regulations.
Prioritize laboratory orders by type, including STAT, ASAP, routine, and timed studies.
Perform a variety of laboratory testing, including chemistry, coagulation, hematology, special chemistry, urinalysis, blood bank, serology, immunology, bacteriology, microbiology, and referral testing.
Follow quality assurance policies and procedures; perform, evaluate, and document quality-control checks.
Review test results and assess their validity and accuracy in relation to procedures, anticipated results, test interdependencies, physiological conditions, patient age and normal values, controls, linearity errors, instrument codes, and delta checks.
Correlate results with diagnoses and question incompatible results.
Document and communicate results thoroughly, expediting critical values and results to appropriate clinicians.
Dispose of contaminated materials and equipment according to policy and cleanse 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, train, and supervise trainees, laboratory assistants, and clerks as needed.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned.