Phlebotomist Outreach
Brown University Health · East Greenwich, RI · 1 mo ago
$18.13–$29.9/hrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc.
We need to parse the posting.
Summary: Under supervision... etc. That's about the role. So we can have
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc.
We need to parse the posting.
Summary: Under supervision... etc. That's about the role. So we can have About the role
with paragraph(s) summarizing the summary.
Responsibilities: The long list of duties. We'll put Responsibilities
with - items.
Requirements: Might be education and experience? The posting includes Education MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS..., Experience..., Work Environment..., etc. We can separate into Requirements (maybe education and experience) and Qualifications (maybe certifications). But we need to follow instruction: Use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should include only those with real content.
We have Pay Range: $18.13-$29.90. So we can have Pay section.
Schedule: Work Type Monday through Friday from 6:00 am to 2:30 pm, Work Shift Day, Daily Hours 8 hours. So we have schedule info.
Benefits: Not mentioned. So we should not include Benefits heading.
Skills: Could be derived from Experience section: Ability to perform venipuncture..., Interpersonal skills..., Demonstrated knowledge..., Clerical skills..., Familiarity..., Ability to distinguish chromatic colors. Also maybe other skills. So we can include Skills section.
Requirements: Could be education and experience minimums. Qualifications: Could be phlebotomy certificate etc. But we need to avoid duplication. Let's decide: Requirements = education and experience minimums. Qualifications = certification/licensure requirements. Skills = specific abilities.
We must preserve all substantive info; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the posting, but we can group them.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not relevant.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO statement, location? Location is substantive? It's location info. Should we include? The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Location is not boilerplate; it's substantive. Should we include location? There's no heading for location; we could put it in About the role paragraph or maybe a separate section? Not listed. Could include in About the role as part of summary. But we must preserve all substantive info; we can embed location in About the role paragraph.
Work Environment And Physical Requirement: Could be part of Requirements or maybe a separate section? Not in list. Could be included in Requirements or maybe in About the role. We'll embed in Requirements maybe.
Supervisory responsibility: None. Could be included in Requirements.
We must not repeat job title.
Let's extract details:
Summary (About the role):
- Under supervision of Manager Laboratory Outreach Services or guidance of Lead Phlebotomist.
- Performs responsibilities associated with obtaining blood and various other patient specimens per department procedures.
- Obtains samples ordered by physicians for routine and specialized tests on assigned unit.
- Takes samples from pediatric and adult patients on outpatient units.
- Transports specimens and completes basic records.
- Fosters patient and family centered care and nursing services per Brown University Health and The Miriam Hospital’s mission, vision, values, considering life span, developmental stages, cultural patterns.
- Employees expected to role model values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence.
Responsibilities (list):
We need to parse the responsibilities block. It's long with repetitions. We need to capture each distinct duty.
Let's list them:
- Performs various functions associated with the computer system to assure proper collection and documentation of patient specimens.
- Patient Registration including Patient Identification and verification, Patient Look-up, enter patient demographics, insurance information, guarantor, PCP, ordering provider, order tests, enter diagnostic codes, ordering provider following established policies and procedures for patient identification and verification, registration, test orders, medical necessity, and document scanning.
- Manage Advanced Beneficiary Notice (ABNSN) to include obtaining supporting diagnostic codes, document review, patient signature, document management and scanning.
- Performs related clerical activities such as medical necessity follow-up, sorts and files records, daily checklists, answering phones, report delivery, receiving patient into clinical treatment area, as necessary.
- Maintains/monitors standing orders for expiration and renewals confirming tasks are followed through to completion.
- Provides patient with forms for test, gives instructions regarding any special preparation necessary prior to specimen collection test or appointment.
- May contact additional patient information to complete patient records.
- Schedules venipunctures or capillary blood punctures according to priority and type of test, such as timed studies.
- Utilizes computer-generated collection labels and references Pathology Handbook as necessary to ensure collection of specimens is in accordance with established procedures, i.e., specimens are collected in proper containers and meet special collection requirements as appropriate.
- Duties are performed according to hospital policy and observance of universal precautions.
- Verifies identity of patient following established procedures and proper patient preparation prior to venipuncture such as fasting or special diet.
- Obtains blood samples from patient according to venipuncture or capillary puncture technique.
- Alerts nursing staff or supervisor to any deviations from puncture or adverse patient condition.
- May collect other types of specimens (throat culture etc.).
- May require processing of samples to include centrifuging samples and specimen tracking.
- Obtains samples for specialized tests (thyroid Releasing hormone, therapeutic drug monitoring, and D-Xylose tolerance).
- Verifies volume and timing of dosage.
- May monitor patient as assigned to observe reactions, including Diaphoresis, sleeping, etc.
- May be required to perform bleeding times.
- Labels, wraps and transports samples according to type and urgency of sample.
- Maintains records on sample procurement.
- Performs duties according to hospital policy and universal precautions.
- Performs various functions associated with the computer system to assure proper collection and documentation of patient specimens. (duplicate)
- Register patients and order tests following established policies and procedures for patient identification and verification, registration, test orders, medical necessity and document scanning. (duplicate)
- Performs related clerical activities such as, sorts and files records, daily checklists, answering phones, report delivery, receiving patient into clinical/treatment area and as necessary, interviews patient to obtain insurance, biographical and medical information to complete registration records.
- Provides patient with forms for test, gives instructions regarding any special preparation necessary prior to test or appointment.
- May contact patient to return and repeat tests.
- May contact outside agency physician office to obtain additional patient information to complete patient records.
- All essential functions performed in this position reflect the age specific needs of the patients.
- Follows established procedures, guidelines and protocols when obtaining samples at the patient’s home.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
We need to deduplicate similar items but preserve all substantive info. We can combine duplicates into one bullet but ensure we don't lose info. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Combining duplicates might be okay as long as we don't lose detail. But we could keep duplicates; it's okay but may be repetitive. Better to combine similar but ensure we keep all details. For example, "Performs various functions associated with the computer system to assure proper collection and documentation of patient specimens." appears twice; we can keep one.
Similarly "Register patients and order tests following established policies and procedures..." similar to first bullet. We'll combine.
We'll produce a list of unique responsibilities.
Now Education/Experience:
Education MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Phlebotomy certificate through National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences and/or completion of a Phlebotomy certificate program to include formal internship demonstrating 100 successful venipunctures.
- In lieu of internship, 6 months of phlebotomy experience may be considered.
- In lieu of phlebotomy certification, 5 plus years direct phlebotomy experience may be considered.
Experience:
- Ability to perform venipuncture techniques and capillary puncture on adults, children and infants.
- Interpersonal skills to obtain and provide information to patients and to explain procedures effectively in order to allay fears and anxiety.
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills necessary to provide care patients with consideration of aging processes, human development stages and cultural patterns in each step of the care process.
- Clerical skills to prepare and maintain records and reports, including keyboard skills to enter access information.
- Familiarity with blood collector equipment, anticoagulants, special precautions and interference.
- Ability to distinguish chromatic colors.
- A Phlebotomy certificate required. (Note: this repeats certification requirement.)
Work Environment And Physical Requirement:
- Works with in-patient care environment with considerable walking between units and where some physical effort may be required to deal with patients who are uncooperative.
- Some exposure to odors when handling specimens.
- Exposure to communicable diseases while administering to patients, however chance of injury is minimized by the adherence to established infection control procedures.
- Manual dexterity to perform venipunctures.
- SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: None.
Pay Range: $18.13-$29.90
Location: East Greenwich-1672 South County Trail - 1672 South County Trail East Greenwich, Rhode Island 02818
Work Type: Monday through Friday from 6:00 am to 2:30 pm
Work Shift: Day
Daily Hours: 8 hours
Driving Required: No
We need to include Pay and Schedule sections.
Schedule: we can combine Work Type, Work Shift, Daily Hours, Driving Required.
Now Benefits: none.
Skills: we can list abilities from Experience section: Ability to perform venipuncture..., Interpersonal skills..., Demonstrated knowledge..., Clerical skills..., Familiarity..., Ability to distinguish chromatic colors. Also maybe manual dexterity from Work Environment.
We should not invent details.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no markdown fences.
We'll produce:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Phlebotomy certificate through National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences and/or completion of a Phlebotomy certificate program including formal internship demonstrating 100 successful venipunctures.
- In lieu of internship, 6 months of phlebotomy experience may be considered.
- In lieu of phlebotomy certification, 5+ years direct phlebotomy experience may be considered.
- Ability to perform venipuncture and capillary puncture on adults, children, and infants.
- Interpersonal skills to obtain and provide information to patients and explain procedures effectively to allay fears and anxiety.
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills to provide care considering aging processes, human development stages, and cultural patterns.
- Clerical skills to prepare and maintain records and reports, including keyboard skills for data entry.
- Familiarity with blood collector equipment, anticoagulants, special precautions, and interference.
- Ability to distinguish chromatic colors.
- Manual dexterity to perform venipunctures.
- Works in an inpatient care environment with considerable walking between units; may require physical effort with uncooperative patients.
- Exposure to odors when handling specimens and to communicable diseases; injury risk minimized by infection control procedures.
- No supervisory responsibility.
But we might be mixing qualifications and requirements. Perhaps better: Requirements = education and experience minimums; Qualifications = certification/licensure; Skills = abilities.
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Phlebotomy certificate through National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences and/or completion of a Phlebotomy certificate program including formal internship demonstrating 100 successful venipunctures.
- In lieu of internship, 6 months of phlebotomy experience may be considered.
- In lieu of phlebotomy certification, 5+ years direct phlebotomy experience may be considered.
- Ability to perform venipuncture and capillary puncture on adults, children, and infants.
- Interpersonal skills to obtain and provide information to patients and explain procedures effectively to allay fears and anxiety.
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills to provide care considering aging processes, human development stages, and cultural patterns.
- Clerical skills to prepare and maintain records and reports, including keyboard skills for data entry.
- Familiarity with blood collector equipment, anticoagulants, special precautions, and interference.
- Ability to distinguish chromatic colors.
- Manual dexterity to perform venipunctures.
- Works in an inpatient care environment with considerable walking between units; may require physical effort with uncooperative patients.
- Exposure to odors when handling specimens and to communicable diseases; injury risk minimized by infection control procedures.
- No supervisory responsibility.