Phlebotomist

Sutter Health•City of Yonkers, NY

19h•Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a Phlebotomist at ABSMC-Summit Campus within Sutter Health. The role involves performing venipuncture or skin puncture to withdraw blood for testing, ensuring positive patient identification and specimen integrity. The Phlebotomist will also register patients, enter orders into the hospital or laboratory information system (LIS), and receive collected specimens. Maintaining a clean and well-stocked work area, answering telephones, processing test orders accurately, and assisting with new employee orientation are also key aspects. The role requires reporting complaints and demonstrating the knowledge and skills to provide age-specific care to geriatric, adult, adolescent, pediatric, and neonatal patients. The Medical Center's mission of providing compassionate care and respecting dignity is emphasized, along with applying principles of continuous quality improvement and projecting a service orientation.

Requirements

HS Diploma or general education degree (GED) OR Three to six months related experience and/or training OR Equivalent combination of education and experience
CPTI-Certified Phlebotomy Technician I
Understands the importance of positive patient specimen identification.
Tact and diplomacy required for interaction with people under stressful conditions.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as service goal requirements, safety rules, computer logs, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively with customers and employees.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Nice To Haves

Six months comparable hospital experience.

Responsibilities

Performs venipuncture or skin puncture for the purpose of withdrawing blood for testing.
Obtains blood specimens by venipuncture or skin puncture following established patient identification and specimen labeling procedures to ensure positive identification and specimen integrity.
Registers patients and enters orders into hospital or laboratory information system (LIS).
Receives specimens collected into the laboratory information system following established procedures.
Maintains clean, well-stocked blood collection trays and/or outpatient drawing rooms.
Answers telephones, taking orders and providing other information as requested.
Prints and follows-up on various LIS reports as directed.
Processes test orders accurately as to priority, test requested, specimen requirements, date and time of service, and additional information as provided.
Assists with orientation of new employees.
Reports complaints in writing from patients, physicians, or other hospital staff to section manager.
Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to geriatric, adult, adolescent, pediatric and neonatal patients, having the ability to assess data reflective of such patients' status, identifying each patient's requirements relative to his/her age specific needs, and applying the principles of growth and development of such patients.
Helps the Medical Center fulfill its mission by providing compassionate care and respecting the dignity of others.
Applies the principles of "continuous quality improvement" which includes working cooperatively with colleagues and projecting a service orientation toward all.