About the position
This position is responsible for all activities with blood and blood components including, but not limited to, logging-in the units, thawing plasma, thawing and pooling cryoprecipitate, irradiate products and washing RBCs; setting up patient or blood product samples for testing by a technologist/automated machine; maintenance of lab equipment.
Responsibilities
- Handles blood and blood products by accessioning patient samples, spinning down the blood in the centrifuge and logging all blood products in the computer
- Set up, maintain, calibrate, clean, and test sterility of medical laboratory equipment.
- Prepare solutions used for laboratory testing and procedures
- Prepare specimens for testing under the guidance of a medical technologist.
- Ensures all computer entries are accurate.
- Places orders in LIS and files various documents
- Provides customer assistance by answering the phone for the department
- Receives customer orders and communicates these orders to the technologists
- Screens all other calls and directs them as appropriate
Requirements
- Some experience in a laboratory setting.
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Demonstrate competency in routine testing in assigned Laboratory area.
- Ability to effectively relate and communicate with internal and external customers.
- Basic knowledge of laboratory information systems.
- Ability to organize tasks and projects work without close supervision to complete tasks.
