About This Role
This role involves performing laboratory testing using both manual and automated techniques, ensuring accuracy and quality across all phases of testing. The Clinical Laboratory Scientist will also be responsible for maintaining records, adhering to quality assurance procedures, and participating in regulatory readiness.
Responsibilities
- Understand and adhere to WPH performance standards, policies, and behaviors
- Follow the laboratory's pre-analytic and analytic procedures and maintain records of these tests
- Maintain records that demonstrate proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens
- Adhere to the laboratory's quality assurance procedures, including documenting all quality control activities, instrument and equipment verifications, and maintenance
- Follow the laboratory's policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within established performance specifications
- Identify and document problems that may adversely affect test performance and notify the supervisor, assistant director, or director, documenting all corrective actions taken
- Ensure the accuracy and quality of all results from pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic phases of testing
- Notify and document clinicians and patient units of all critical values and maintain laboratory STAT turn around time requirements
- Participate in regulatory readiness for CAP, AABB, NYSDOH, and Joint Commission
- Maintain 12 Continuing Education credits per year
- Understand and participate in standard operating procedures, proficiency testing, inspection audits, and quality programs including reporting non-conformances
- Evaluate test results for abnormalities and confirm those results per department protocols where required
- Participate in validations, training, and competency assessments as required
- Responsible for inventory management of lot numbers, expiration dates, labeling, and QC requirements
- Complete all annual mandatory training, in-services, and ongoing education as required
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Section testing training and competency assessments are maintained by the section laboratory supervisor for all assigned disciplines
- Generalists perform Hematology, Coagulation, Chemistry/Immunology, Urinalysis, Microbiology, and Blood Bank specialties
- Chemistry/Immunology performs Chemistry, Specialized Chemistry, Immunology, Molecular, and Serology testing
- Hematology performs Hematology, Coagulation, and Urinalysis testing
- Microbiology performs Bacteriology, Parasitology, Virology, Mycology, Mycobacteriology, Susceptibilities, and Molecular testing
- Blood Bank performs blood bank testing related to transfusion medicine and blood product distribution
