Medical Lab Assistant - RI VanDyke

Medical Lab Assistant – RI Van Dyke

Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Job Description Summary

Provides clerical and patient care support, especially regarding specimen collection and specimen processing. Performs patient registration, specimen accessioning, specimen collection (venipuncture, capillary, sweat chloride, and miscellaneous other collections), ensuring specimen preparation and processing is completed, and waived laboratory testing.

Provides clerical and patient care support, especially regarding specimen collection and specimen processing: patient registration, specimen accessioning, specimen collection, preparation, processing, and waived laboratory testing.

• Completes technical tasks including specimen accessioning, preparation, processing, delivery, and storage. May include phlebotomy and other specimen collection.
• Performs clerical tasks and specimen accessioning according to testing protocols and criteria; maintains laboratory operations through equipment maintenance, quality control, and preventive maintenance.
• Performs waived laboratory testing, documents patient reports, quality control, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrates knowledge of and upholds applicable laws and regulations related to position and laboratory operations.
• Documents daily, weekly, and monthly tasks on assigned work area task lists.
• Delivers service excellence and quality patient care by adapting communication styles to cultural differences, addressing client concerns, researching problems and identifying resolutions, using basic troubleshooting skills, and efficiently handling interruptions and functions in changing environments.
• Provides useful feedback to support individual improvement; actively engages in efforts to develop mutual respect and inclusiveness; participates in continuing education programs.

High school diploma or equivalent, required.

• American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) certification, preferred.
• CPR certification, preferred.

• Technical skills, organizational skills, ability to multitask, attention to detail, and computer experience required.
• Interpersonal relationship skills to collaborate with internal and external customers.
• Effective written and oral communication.
• Efficient in collaborative and independent work.

• One year of clinical laboratory/medical experience and office experience, preferred.
• Two years of phlebotomy experience, preferred.

Occasionally:
Bend/twist, climb stairs/ladder, fume/gases/vapors, lift/carry 11‑20 lbs, lift/carry 21‑40 lbs, loud noises, push/pull 0‑25 lbs, reach above shoulder, squat/kneel. Frequently: chemicals/medications, machinery, seeing – far/near, walking. Continuously: audible speech, biohazard waste, blood and/or bodily fluids, color vision, communicable diseases and/or pathogens, computer skills, decision making, depth perception, neck flexion/extending, hand use (grasping, gripping, turning), hearing acuity, interpreting data, lift/carry 0‑10 lbs, peripheral vision, problem solving, repetitive hand/arm use, sitting, standing.

EEO M/F/Disability/Vet

Entry level

Full‑time

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