Laboratory Assistant

Tampa General Hospital•Tampa, FL

12d

About The Position

The Laboratory Assistant accurately and effectively performs clerical and support duties as directed by department leadership. The role promotes department efficiency, helps ensure timely laboratory reports, and maintains regulatory compliance for records organization, retention, and quality control.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
One to two months of on-the-job training and orientation.

Responsibilities

Conduct point-of-care glucometer orientation, education, and monitoring; troubleshoot issues and obtain replacement meters.
Print monthly quality-control reports for review and perform glucometer linearity checks every six months.
Publish department education topics, document staff completion, and revise procedure manuals.
Update and maintain laboratory policies and procedures electronically, ensuring biannual reviews and signatures.
Prepare monthly blood and urine culture contamination-rate reports and daily and monthly turnaround-time data.
Monitor reference laboratory results for scanning into the EMR and review chain-of-custody drug-screen paperwork.
Order and stock phlebotomy and laboratory supplies and maintain laboratory employee files.
Prepare and update personnel phone-call and disaster-call lists and perform EMR audits for transfusion reactions and blood bank issues.
Assist with interviewing, hiring, and supervising phlebotomists, and prepare monthly phlebotomy schedules.
Enter data into the COVID tele tracker on weekends and assist with COC drug-screen collections and specimen processing.
Be available 24/7 for phlebotomy staffing issues or questions.