Medical Laboratory Assistant 1

Responsibilities

• Determines blood donor eligibility by performing related testing, evaluating donor/patient medical history, assisting physicians with special tests and procedures, recruiting blood donors, and completing appropriate records pertaining to donations in a manner that ensures donor confidentiality.
• Participates in mobile and in-house blood bank operations and maintains donor stations where designated on a regular rotation.
• Separates blood components, pools platelets, and thaws frozen plasma for transfusion.
• Visits patients who have received blood during surgery in order to inform them about the hospital blood donation program.
• If applicable, performs non-complex testing (i.e., sed rates) as well as directed testing (i.e., sweat testing) following SOPs.
• Receives and organizes specimens. Independently prioritizes workload.
• Investigates and takes responsibility for proper identification of each specimen. Processes specimens according to procedures (may involve centrifuging and aliquoting specimens).
• Sorts and tracks according to the appropriate performing laboratory, maintaining the integrity of the sample. If in Blood Bank, verifies label, boxes, ships and prepares documents for Recovered Plasma and filters Red Blood Cells to remove leukocytes.

Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent
• Licenses and Certifications: Must possess a Louisiana License: CLS-Laboratory Assistant