Phlebotomist, FT, Evenings

About the role

Harrison County Hospital is seeking a Phlebotomist to join our team! This position is full-time, evenings plus rotating weekends, 12p‑8:30p. Harrison County Hospital has continuously served the people of Harrison County since 1950. Today our acute care community hospital serves the healthcare needs of a much broader and growing population in Harrison and Crawford counties, Indiana and Meade County, Kentucky. As our community grows, we grow, serving more patients than ever before, and recruiting highly qualified hospital and medical staff.

Responsibilities

• Perform skin punctures to obtain blood specimens for laboratory testing.
• Process test requisitions promptly and accurately, handle charging, registering and ordering tests for outpatients.
• Inform techs of stat and other timed or urgent testing.
• Distribute and file test results and physician orders.
• Telephone patients, physicians, and nursing units when required.
• Process and handle specimens according to lab protocol.
• Perform capillary testing.
• Perform EKGs for outpatients.
• Answer all telephone calls to the lab and transfer calls as needed.
• Maintain neat and organized collection trays, collection areas, and work areas.
• Demonstrate logical/professional behaviors under demanding and stressful conditions.

Requirements

• High school graduate with on‑the‑job training in a clinical laboratory.
• One year of experience preferred.

Skills

• Ability to perform phlebotomy and capillary puncture procedures for neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.
• Ability to communicate patient preparation and procedure information to parents of neonates and infants, and to communicate at the level of patient understanding for children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.
• Ability to obtain and interpret information from parents of neonates and infants, and directly from