Medical Assistant Jobs in Spokane, LA

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 6–8 years of work experience.
• State licensure and/or professional certification requirements depend on the position.

Responsibilities

• Performs required quality control and quality assurance tests, maintains documentation and current logs, and reports test-quality or patient- or employee-safety concerns to a Supervisor or Safety Officer.
• Preserves and processes gross specimens, sets up surgical specimen documentation, organizes slides and data, generates tables, and assists with other requests.
• Describes gross anatomic features of processing specimens, sections specimens according to specific protocols, and submits the correct portions for histologic preparation.
• Logs surgical pathology specimens in the tissue laboratory, assigns accession numbers, checks tissue-examination forms and specimens for completeness and accuracy, and labels specimen cassettes according to specimen requirements.
• Performs accurate gross description and dissection of surgical specimens according to guidelines established by the Anatomic Pathology Medical Director for a Gross Technician.
• Prioritizes and triages specimens; handles and disposes of specimens and chemical waste according to the laboratory procedural manual; and ensures compliance with regulatory agencies.
• Aids in discrepancy resolution.
• Photomicrographs areas of interest for inclusion in final reports and performs quality control during image capture.
• Helps pathologists, adjunct pathologists, and remote pathologists respond to quality assurance audits.
• Assists with identifying and researching discrepancy cases to determine the origin of variance.