Medical Technician - Phlebotomy

Duties

• Using proper patient identification and sample labeling.
• Collecting blood or urine specimens and ensures safe, non-traumatic processes are used to maintain patient safety and assure specimen quality.
• Performing blood collection using venipunctures, arterial punctures and capillary finger sticks with a minimal number of failures, patient bruising, or required repeat collection, ensuring that samples are submitted to the clinical laboratory with the least possible delay.
• Performing specimen collection in the emergency room, hospital rooms, extended care rooms and outpatient specimen collection area.
• Performing specimen performed independently without supervision; however, supervisor and medical technologists are available for consultation.
• Following standard operating procedures for guidance in specimen collection.
• Identifying tests that require special handling conditions and appropriately performs proper specimen collection.
• Preparing specimens, such as labeling, and decanting.
• Accessioning patient tests order for main laboratory and microbiology, remove canceled tests.
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Experience: You must have at least 6 months of general experience and 6 months of specialized experienced that equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is: (a) Technical medical laboratory support work such as performing laboratory tests and examinations (chemical, microbiologic, hematologic and blood banking) and preparing reports of findings or (b) technical support work in a closely related field, e.g., biological laboratory technician work that required application of the methods and techniques for the position to be filled.
• Education and Training: Successful completion (a) an associate-degree course of study of which the 2nd year of the 2-year program included successful completion of a training course of approximately a year's duration in a certified laboratory assistant school approved by a nationally recognized accrediting agency; (b) 1 year of study that included 6 semester hours in chemistry and/or the biological sciences, plus successful completion of (a) a full-time training course of approximately a year's duration in a medical or clinical laboratory assistant (or technician) school that included instruction in chemistry, hematology, blood banking, and microbiology (including serology) and that, in addition, included supervised laboratory practice incident to the diagnostic process and the treatment of patients; or (c) 2 years of study that included at least 12 semester hours of chemistry and/or biological science course work that must have been directly related to the specialization of the position to be filled.
• Combination: Equivalent combinations of post-high school education and experience, as described above.