Lab Assistant Per Diem

Essential Functions

• Exhibits excellence in customer service through appropriate attitude and interaction with all patients, visitors and staff.
• Adheres to and supports team members in exhibiting TMCH values of integrity, community, compassion, and dedication.
• Adheres to TMCH organizational and department-specific safety and confidentiality policies and standards.
• Performs basic technical processes as assigned, based on specific department requirements.
• Performs testing under direct supervision in a timely manner according to established policies, meeting performance standards and knowledge level determined for that testing.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the computer systems used in the department.
• Generates work lists, as required.
• Performs a variety of routine laboratory processes and procedures according to prescribed protocols and assigned schedules.
• Uses appropriate safety procedures for handling, storage and disposal of bio-hazardous, infectious, radioactive and toxic substances.
• Participates in the Laboratory quality control, safety, and preventive maintenance programs.
• Demonstrates awareness and complies with accrediting agency and regulatory requirements related to their area of responsibility.
• Performs basic maintenance checks on laboratory equipment.
• Captures and routes specimens to proper areas of the laboratory.
• Tracks and locates missing specimens.

Technical Areas (Core, Microbiology, Blood Bank)

• Logs specimens into laboratory and Laboratory Information System (LIS).
• Receives or collects specimens and labels them appropriately.
• Storing specimens for future reference or discarding them after testing.
• Labels and distributes case slides to the pathologists per assigned schedules.
• Processes requisitions for pathology and laboratory services.
• Stores and disposes of surgical and autopsy specimens.
• Photographs such subjects as gross autopsy specimens.
• Cuts, stains, and processes specimens of human tissue for frozen sections.
• Maintains cryostat and staining setup for frozens and touch preps.
• Filings slides and blocks as they are made available from multiple sources (daily cases, send-out returns, etc.).

Histology/Cytology

• Logs specimens into laboratory and Laboratory Information System (LIS).
• Receives or collects specimens and labels them appropriately.
• Storing specimens for future reference or discarding them after testing.
• Labels and distributes case slides to the pathologists per assigned schedules.
• Processes requisitions for pathology and laboratory services.
• Stores and disposes of surgical and autopsy specimens.
• Photographs such subjects as gross autopsy specimens.
• Cuts, stains, and processes specimens of human tissue for frozen sections.
• Maintains cryostat and staining setup for frozens and touch preps.
• Filings slides and blocks as they are made available from multiple sources (daily cases, send-out returns, etc.).
• Processes tracking functions using Ventana’s Vantage software.

Pathology Office

• Maintains phones and responds to requests for information.
• Manages morgue book daily, ensuring paperwork is complete and accurate for each decedent, resolving errors as needed.
• Follows up with family or authorized party to release decedents timely.
• Completes release paperwork.
• Provides support and assists pathologists as requested.
• Manages face sheets for billing purposes, coordinates and completes outside consultant requests, pulling blocks and slides as needed for send out or further pathologist review.
• Prepares various tumor board information each week and assists with legal preservation.
• Pulls samples to send out to other labs then records when samples are returned; enters or retrieves data from computer files, scans and labels a variety of samples.

TMC Rincon

• Lab Assistant responsibilities include Phlebotomy.