MLT/MLS Part-Time Evenings and Weekends

About the Role

Your job is more than a job. As a Clinical Laboratory Scientist, you have the uncanny ability to look for that needle in the haystack that may lead to cracking medical mysteries. You’re not just performing tests—you’re shedding light on health problems and diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and genetic abnormalities. Blood samples or body fluid specimens can hold the answers to research or recovery, so you take a detailed approach to performing clinical laboratory testing, evaluating and reporting data. While you may never meet your patients personally, you still feel a connection to the real people who benefit from your love of science and research.

Responsibilities

• Ensure specimens received by the laboratory are acceptable for testing by applying the appropriate criteria; change or prepare reagents and controls as necessary and record in log.
• Label, accession, and distribute specimens while maintaining the integrity of patient identification throughout processing; inoculate specimens from all areas of the body on appropriate media.
• Initiate orders for blood and/or blood components from the appropriate blood supplier.
• Follow hospital/laboratory safety and infection control policies; report variances to section supervisors as they occur.
• Determine the appropriateness of manual methods, micro-methods, and back-up procedures; initiate such procedures as needed.
• Use the computer system to compare patient results to previous results during the same encounter; investigate discrepancies and report test results within established departmental turn-around times after verifying documentation is complete and accurate.
• Prepare and interpret gram stains and other wet and dry preparations for bacteriology and parasitology.
• Perform all routine procedures including, but not limited to, ABORH typing and retesting, antibody detection and identification, compatibility testing, and serology procedures.
• Prepare blood components while maintaining aseptic technique and proper storage.
• Evaluate serological reactivity to assist with antibody identification and crossmatch incompatibilities.
• Follow universal precautions at all times when dealing with blood or body fluids; disinfect countertops at the end of the shift with appropriate cleaner.
• Operate, calibrate, conduct performance checks, and maintain clinical laboratory instruments or equipment after orientation; troubleshoot basic instrument malfunctions and document in the appropriate action log.
• Determine when an instrument’s service representative should be contacted for assistance.
• Analyze quality control material for each procedure, record values according to section policy, and report to the technical supervisor when results are outside established limits.
• Perform comparison studies of precision, accuracy, and linearity on new or existing procedures; record proficiency surveys and route form and reagent quality control as specified in the quality control manuals.
• Assist in the clinical orientation of new or less skilled laboratory personnel as requested by the section Supervisor.
• Ensure proper packaging and disposal of waste chemicals; maintain proper documentation (log) of generated waste.
• Perform order or result entry (manual or computerized) and review information for accuracy before verification.
• Document critical call value notification, duplicate checking, date and time of performance, technologist initials, and expected age-related “normal” values on all downtime reports as appropriate.
• Check instruments and benches assigned for appropriate reagent and supply levels; replenish and notify the appropriate person of low inventory items or any out-of-date, contaminated, or otherwise unacceptable reagents.
• Record receipt of supplies and reagents, properly initialing and dating inventory items at receipt, time put into use, and expiration; ensure adequate inventory levels are available for incoming shifts.
• Receive tissue specimens from surgery, autopsy, and nursing floors; perform proper processing and preservation of tissue specimens; comply with proper specimen storage and preservation of all other non-tissue specimens for non-core laboratory.
• Prepare necessary reagents and collection supplies for assisting with bone marrow aspirations according to physician orders; assist physicians in the procurement of bone marrow specimens; perform special stains and follow protocols as appropriate.

Requirements

• Minimum Clinical Lab Generalist licensed by Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners as CLG or CLS.

Schedule

Variable Hours (United States of America)

About the Organization

LCMC Health is a community where our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches extend our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond. We put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion, and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture.

Touro, at the forefront of medical excellence within LCMC Health’s community of care, has been regionally recognized for 165 years as one of New Orleans' most enduring healthcare monuments. It’s where babies come from and where New Orleanians are cared for. Learn more about Touro and our Leapfrog “Grade A” Hospital Safety distinction.

Benefits

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all; think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems—it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you—because we do.