Clinical Medical Laboratory Assistant

Nationwide Children's Hospital•Columbus, OH

21h•Onsite

About The Position

This full-time Clinical Medical Laboratory Assistant position at Nationwide Children's Hospital involves providing clerical and patient care support, with a primary focus on specimen collection and processing. The role includes patient registration, specimen accessioning, various types of specimen collection (venipuncture, capillary, sweat chloride, and other miscellaneous collections), ensuring proper specimen preparation and processing, and performing waived laboratory testing. The assistant is also responsible for maintaining laboratory operations through equipment maintenance, quality control, and preventive maintenance, and documenting all tasks and reports appropriately. The position requires delivering service excellence and quality patient care, adapting communication styles, addressing client concerns, troubleshooting, and handling interruptions efficiently in a changing environment. The individual is expected to uphold applicable laws and regulations, participate in continuing education, and contribute to a respectful and inclusive atmosphere.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent
Technical skills
Organizational skills
Ability to multitask
Attention to detail
Computer experience
Interpersonal relationship skills to collaborate with internal and external customers
Effective in both written and oral communications
Efficient in collaborative and independent work

Nice To Haves

American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) certification
CPR certification
One-year of clinical laboratory/ medical experience and office experience
Two years of phlebotomy experience

Responsibilities

Completes technical tasks such as specimen accessioning, specimen preparation, and processing, and specimen delivery and storage.
May include phlebotomy and other specimen collection.
Performs clerical tasks and specimen accessioning in accordance with testing protocols and criteria.
Maintains laboratory operations by performing equipment maintenance, quality control, and preventive maintenance.
Performs waived laboratory testing, documents patient reports, quality control, maintenance, and troubleshooting appropriately.
Demonstrates knowledge of and upholds applicable laws and regulations related to position and laboratory operations.
Documents daily, weekly, and monthly tasks on assigned work area task lists.
Delivers service excellence and quality patient care through adjusting communication styles to adapt to various cultural differences, addressing client concerns by researching problems and identifying resolutions, using basic troubleshooting skills, and efficiently handling interruptions and functions with changing environments or circumstances.
Provides feedback that is useful and assists in individual improvement.
Actively engages in and supports efforts to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect and inclusiveness.
Participates in continuing education programs.