Lab Support Clerk

Job Specific Accountabilities

• 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.
• Maintains 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.
• Maintains proficiency in the use of laboratory instruments and performs maintenance as needed.
• Monitors and transports specimens from Surgery.
• Accessions specimens and accurately enters clinical information from the requisitions into the pathology module.
• Prepares cases for send out of surgical consultations.
• Processes specimens to be sent to reference laboratories.
• Familiar with proper specimen packaging, requirements, sample preparation, and creation of manifests.