Clinical Laboratory Scientist, three 12-hour shifts, 7:00am-7:30pm

About the Role

As a Clinical Laboratory Scientist, you examine patient specimens to uncover medical mysteries. Your work focuses on diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and genetic abnormalities, performing detailed laboratory testing, evaluating data, and reporting results. While you do not interact directly with patients, your work supports patient care and medical research.

• Ensure specimens received by the laboratory are acceptable for testing by applying appropriate criteria and preparing reagents and controls as necessary, documenting all in log sheets.
• Label, accession and distribute specimens to maintain integrity of patient identification throughout processing and inoculate specimens from all body areas on appropriate media.
• Initiate orders for blood and/or blood components from the appropriate blood supplier.
• Follow hospital/laboratory safety and infection control policies, reporting variances to section supervisors as they arise.
• Determine appropriateness of manual methods, micro‑methods, and back‑up procedures, and initiate such procedures.
• Use the computer system to compare patient results to previous results for the same encounter, investigate discrepancies, and report test results within established departmental turnaround times after verifying documentation is complete and accurate.
• Prepare and interpret gram stains and other wet and dry preparations for bacteriology and parasitology.
• Perform all routine procedures including, but not limited to, ABORH typing and retesting, antibody detection and identification, compatibility testing, and serology procedures.
• Prepare blood components while maintaining aseptic technique and proper storage.
• Evaluate serological reactivity to assist with antibody identification and cross match incompatibilities.
• Follow universal precautions at all times when handling blood or body fluids and disinfect countertops at the end of the shift with an appropriate cleaner.
• Operate, calibrate, conduct performance checks, and maintain clinical laboratory instruments or equipment after orientation; troubleshoot basic instrument malfunctions and document in the appropriate action log.
• Determine when an instrument’s service representative should be contacted for assistance.
• Analyze quality control material for each procedure, record values according to section policy, and report to the technical supervisor when results are outside established limits.
• Perform comparison studies of precision, accuracy, and linearity on new or existing procedures; record proficiency surveys and route forms and reagent quality control as specified in the quality control manuals.
• Assist in the clinical orientation of new or less skilled laboratory personnel as requested by the section supervisor.
• Assure proper packaging and disposal of waste chemicals and maintain proper documentation (log) of generated waste.
• Perform order or result entry (manual or computerized) and review information for accuracy before verification.
• Document critical call value notifications, duplicate checking, date and time of performance, technologist initials, and expected age‑related “normal” values on all down‑time reports as appropriate.
• Check instruments and benches assigned for appropriate reagent and supply levels, replenish and notify the appropriate person of low inventory items or of any out‑of‑date, contaminated or otherwise unacceptable reagents, record receipt of supplies and reagents, properly initial and date the inventory items at receipt and expiration, and ensure adequate inventory levels for incoming shifts.
• Receive tissue specimens from surgery, autopsy, and nursing floors, perform proper processing and preservation of tissue specimens, comply with proper specimen storage, and preserve all other non‑tissue specimens for non‑core laboratory.
• Prepare necessary reagents and collection supplies for assisting with bone marrow aspirations according to physician orders, assist physicians in the procurement of bone marrow specimens, perform special stains and follow protocols as appropriate.

Must‑Haves Minimum:
Clinical Lab Generalist licensed by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners as CLG or CLS.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.