LAB ASSISTANT Job at Williamson Medical Center
At Williamson Medical Center, our employees are smart, talented, compassionate, dedicated, and an overall joy to be around. We’re certainly blessed to have the best of the best working here from the cafeteria to the operating room. We know you would be the perfect addition to our team!
Job Summary
A Laboratory Assistant position requires a positive attitude, providing a high level of customer satisfaction, focus on patient care, and positive communication with customers, hospital staff and co-workers.
Essential Functions:
- Promotes the mission, vision, and values of the organization. Exhibits and adheres to WMC’s Standards of Performance in all areas of job duties and responsibilities.
- Participates in hospital initiatives and in departmental goals set by the Laboratory Director and staff.
- Interacts professionally with laboratory management, laboratory personnel, physicians, hospital personnel, patients and customers to provide optimal patient care.
- Works well with other laboratory employees to maintain an environment of teamwork.
- Exercises all laboratory safety precautions and adheres OSHA and TOSHA safety regulations
- Positively identifies patients, labels specimens and enters results using two unique identifiers. Maintains working knowledge of laboratory policies and procedures.
- Maintains current knowledge and adheres to hospital policies and state, federal and other regulatory requirements
- Responds appropriately to tests with a priority of STAT, call results or timed specimens
- Responsible for training new employees and students as assigned.
- Assists technical and non-technical staff in appropriate area of operation.
- Receive specimens in the main lab, process, and distribute to appropriate department.
- Research, order, and process specimens for reference testing.
- Prepare and package specimens to be sent out for testing, including routines, stats, newborn screens, chain of custody drug screens, etc.
- Enter results into Meditech when completed from reference labs.
- Inventory supplies, maintain supply room organization, receive and put away supplies.
- Set-up specimens in Microbiology.
- Reviews pending and outstanding reports and resolves outstanding specimens
- Other duties as needed/assigned.
Position Requirements
Formal Education / Training:
- High school graduate or equivalent, typing and computer experience preferred, phlebotomy experience preferred.
Workplace Experience:
- Laboratory experience preferred
- Meditech experience preferred
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of medical laboratory science
- Strong organizational skills and interpersonal skills
- Ability to determine appropriate course of action in more complex situations
- Ability to work independently, be attentive to detail and maintain a positive attitude
- Ability to manage multiple and simultaneous responsibilities and to prioritize scheduling of work
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of all medical, financial and legal information
- Ability to complete work assignments accurately and in a timely manner
- Ability to handle difficult situations involving patients, physicians, or others in a professional manner
- Strong computer skills
Physical and Environment Requirements:
- Exposure to blood and body fluids, infectious and contagious diseases, chemicals.
- Ability to communicate in English verbally and in writing.
- Ability to perform multi-functional tasks.
- Ability to read computer screen, distinguish color, hear phone and conduct interpersonal communications
- Ability to learn, reason and perform mathematical calculations related to job.
- Ability to use critical thinking skills.
- Requires light to moderate work with 40 pounds maximum weight to lift and carry.
- Manual dexterity and mobility in both hands; exposed to repetitive motion.
- Frequent reaching, bending, stooping, kneeling, and crouching.
- Requires prolonged standing and walking
- Flexibility to shift schedule, work extra hours or overtime as needed by staffing deficits or high patient volumes
Key Results
1 Works well with Management:
Stores temperature sensitive supplies in a timely manner.
8 Processes and packages specimens for transport according to proper procedures.
9 Follows Hospital and Laboratory Policies on the use of Electronic Devices:
Williamson Medical Center is an equal-opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.
1 Works well with Management:
- Communicates potential issues in a timely manner
- Follows through on work assignments
- Communicates opportunities for improvement in a positive way
- Uses critical thinking skills and makes good use of time.
- In-services reviewed and signed before due date
- Helps coordinator with tasks as needed
- Helps co-workers as needed
- Follows through with incomplete report
- Seeks out new tasks when work in area is done/caught up
- Willingly seeks out/accepts new responsibilities
- 0 ID errors = EE
- 1 ID error = MS
- > 1 ID errors = BS
- Produces work with very few errors.
- 0-0.75% = EE
- 0.76-1.99% = MS
- >2% = BS
- (order entry, result entry, phlebotomy)
- Routinely sets up cultures
- Follows procedures for specimen culture set ups.
Stores temperature sensitive supplies in a timely manner.
8 Processes and packages specimens for transport according to proper procedures.
9 Follows Hospital and Laboratory Policies on the use of Electronic Devices:
- Cell phones kept on vibrate
- Phones/Electronic/Headphones devices used during break/meal times only
- Does not use personal phones in patient care areas
- Uses the hospital internet for work purposes only
- Tardies/Absences kept to a minimum
- Rarely misses time punches in API
- Submits requests for PTO within policy guidelines
- Does not take extended lunches
- Takes appropriate breaks as dictated by workload
- <20 minutes EE
- 20 – 30 minutes MS
- >30 minutes BS
- Communicates problems/issues/concerns to lead tech
- Communicates problems/issues/concerns at shift change to co-worker
- Communicates testing delays to appropriate personnel
- Reads e-mail and communication logs during each work day.
- Documents and signs communication log daily.
Location: Williamson Medical Center · WMC LABORATORY
Schedule: Full Time, Days, Thurs - Sat 10a - 1030p
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