Lab Support Clerk

About the Role

This part-time position provides administrative support to the Cytology and Pathology Laboratories, acting as a liaison between the department and all other hospital units, physicians, outside accounts, and the public. The role involves performing pre- and post-analytical duties for laboratory testing and providing associated support services.

Responsibilities

• Interprets physicians' orders and enters data into the LIS system.
• Receives and processes samples delivered from internal and external sources.
• Delivers samples to the various laboratory sections.
• Distributes completed Laboratory/Pathology reports to nursing units, physicians' boxes, and other areas of the hospital.
• Sorts and prepares, for mailing, all reports being sent to physicians’ offices. Maintains current addresses to ensure timely delivery of reports.
• Receives incoming calls for the laboratory and assists the caller as appropriate or transfers these calls to the correct laboratory section or person.
• Utilizes laboratory computer programs for the entry of orders, receipt of specimens, and query of results.
• Maintains proficiency in the use of the HIS specimen registration process to establish patient accounts.
• Provides courier service and/or specimen pickup and supply delivery for external clients.
• Creates orders for specimens, properly places the labels on the specimens, and delivers them to the lab sections for testing.
• Monitors results call list to ensure that all results are called or faxed as necessary to facilitate timely reporting.
• Prepares Pap smear slides and monolayer slides to include staining, cover slipping, and reagent preparation.
• Performs maintenance on instruments in these areas as needed.
• Transports specimens from Surgery.
• Accession specimens and accurately enter clinical information from the requisitions into the pathology module.
• Prepares cases for send out of surgical consultations.
• Provides clerical support for Pathologists and Laboratory Administration.
• Processes specimens to be sent to reference laboratories, including proper packaging, specimen requirements, sample preparation, and creation of the manifest to be forwarded with the specimens.

Schedule

Part-time