LSBME Lab Assistant/Processor – Core Lab, FT EVENINGS
About The Position
This role as a Laboratory Assistant involves working under the direct supervision of medical practitioners or laboratory personnel in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The primary responsibility is to collect, label, preserve, process, transport, and store blood specimens to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The position requires an individual who is flexible, proactive, resourceful, efficient, professional, and maintains confidentiality, thriving in a fast-paced, sometimes high-pressure environment. The role emphasizes contributing to patient care by providing crucial laboratory support.
Requirements
- High School Diploma/GED or 1 year of directly related experience required
- American Heart Association BLS certification
Responsibilities
- Assist medical technologists and other lab staff with procedural set up, specimen plating, slide staining, etc
- Label, process and distribute specimens according to department standards
- Set up lab testing and/or procedure for medical technologists to read
- Perform laboratory testing
- Respond to specimen receipt via the pneumatic tube system or specimen drop-off, deliver to department sections and appropriately match specimens received with orders in the LIS, and enter collection information
- Maintain the rejection log with appropriate communication documentation
- Provide clerical duties, retrieve laboratory results and fax to the office/unit as appropriate
- Scan necessary documents into the hospital information system as appropriate
- Check instruments and assigned benches for appropriate reagents and supply levels, replenishing when necessary and notify appropriate person/team of low inventory items
- Record receipt of supplies, verify supplies delivered to the department, document receipt in the department’s supply logbook, and label incoming supplies with received date prior to stocking
- Monitor reagent expiration dates, notify appropriate person of any expired tubes or supplies, any item found to be defective, contaminated or otherwise unacceptable
- Assist with specimen collection, determine appropriate specimen collection requirements and techniques for the tests requested, and the amount of specimen required
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
