About This Role
This phlebotomist role involves collecting and processing specimens from patients of all ages, performing limited testing, and supporting laboratory and business functions. It suits a candidate with strong phlebotomy skills and a commitment to patient safety and quality assurance.
Responsibilities
- Verify positive patient identification to ensure patient safety
- Assess patient reactions to specimen procurement
- Perform venipuncture and collect other specimens from newborn, pediatric, and adult patients according to established protocol
- Obtain medical assistance when judged necessary
- Obtain specimens according to priority and scheduled draw times
- Ensure completion of specimen collection functions according to protocol
- Ensure that specimens are properly labeled and suitable for testing
- Resolve specimen identification and/or requisition problems and clarify requests
- Perform limited testing under Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), 1988 guidelines according to established policies and procedures
- Answer and screen telephone calls
- Assist with inventory and maintain supplies and/or equipment
- Provide assistance in support of Billing and other business functions
- Accept specimens from a variety of internal and external customers
- Receive and sort specimens
- Package and track specimens for transport
- Process specimens for testing, including aliquoting, pre-analytical steps, and loading instruments, while maintaining proper specimen identification
- Respond to additional specimen procurement requests via pager or other means
- Order and verify test requests
- Document appropriate information for quality assurance/improvement according to established protocol
- Run quality control checks
- Take appropriate action to notify providers of stat, critical and other abnormal results as defined by policy and procedure
- Perform laboratory result entry in the computer system
- Perform internal and external proficiency testing in the same manner as patient samples
- Review various pending and management reports
- Generate and distribute reports
- Instruct employees and students in phlebotomy, data entry and specimen processing functions
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served
- Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures
