About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses.
Responsibilities
- Perform, evaluate, and monitor laboratory tests as authorized within established protocols, selecting and performing additional procedures when indicated
- Monitor workflow and make necessary adjustments to complete work in an appropriate time frame
- Evaluate results for clinical significance, validity and appropriateness
- Follow prescribed policy in the reporting and notification of test results
- Perform and document calibration, maintenance and repair of instruments and equipment
- Recognize indicators of test and/or instrument malfunction; evaluate and implement appropriate corrections
- Perform, document and review quality control and quality assurance for improvement according to established protocol
- Evaluate quality control results and take corrective action when indicated
- Ascertain that specimens are properly labeled and suitable for testing
- Collect specimens from newborn, pediatric, and adult patients according to established protocol
- Provide general direction, training, competency review and technical assistance to medical laboratory technicians, phlebotomists, and support staff
- Assist in the development of education and training protocols; instruct students, residents and new team members as assigned
- Assist in improving the quality and efficiency of laboratory procedures, policies, and processes
- Ensure compliance with all accrediting agency standards, supporting CAP Regulatory requirements in an acute setting
- Perform internal and external proficiency testing in the same manner as patient samples
- Perform specialty testing in areas including transfusion services, microbiology, chemistry, hematology, histology, coagulation, and flow cytometry
- Support the disease specific accreditations of an institution by meeting turn-around time goals
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served
Requirements
- Medical Technologist (MT) certification issued by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), or
- Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) certification issued by the American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Certification (ASCP BOC) needs to be obtained within 1 year, or
- Medical Technologist (MT) certification issued by the American Medical Technologists (AMT) needs to be obtained within 1 year
- Bachelor's Degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences
- Bachelor's or Associate's Degree in Medical Technology or related field
- No experience required
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills