Clinical Lab Assistant, Part Time Weekend Day

Description

Kindred Hospital The Palm Beaches and Acute Rehabilitation Unit (ARU) is a 68-bed specialty hospital with 57 long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) beds. The ARU is designed for people who have experienced the debilitating effects of an acute injury, impairment, or illness and need extended recovery.

Essential Functions

• Verifies test requisitions by comparing information with nursing station log, bringing discrepancies to the attention of unit personnel
• Verifies patient by reading patient identification
• Obtains blood specimens by performing venipunctures and fingersticks
• Maintains specimen integrity by using aseptic technique, following department procedures, observing isolation procedures
• Captures therapeutic drug-monitoring assays by collaborating with nursing personnel to ensure appropriate drug dose to collection time
• Tracks collected specimens by initialing, dating, and noting times of collection; maintaining daily tallies of collections performed
• Maintains quality results by following department procedures and testing schedule; recording results in the quality-control log; identifying and reporting needed changes
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by following standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations
• Solves unusual test orders by contacting the physician, pathologist, nursing station, or laboratory testing personnel; referring unresolved orders back to the originator for further clarification; notifying supervisor of unresolved orders
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
• Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and TJC standards
• Enhances phlebotomy department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments
• Assists with laboratory clerical work. Answers phones, receives specimens and performs preanalytical preparation for samples including send-outs
• Coordinates and actively enhances laboratory workflow by loading instruments, setting up plates, and performing waived testing per laboratory procedures. Performs pending log resolution
• Calls critical values to actionable care providers

Qualifications

• Minimum of a High School diploma or Equivalent
• Medical Lab Assistant certification preferred but not required
• State license/registration as required by state. Current BLS preferred
• 1-3 years clinical laboratory experience