Lab Assistant​/Phlebotomist - Inpatient (BroMenn

Lab Phlebotomist
- Hospital

The Lab Phlebotomist
- Hospital performs venipuncture and skin puncture in the hospital setting. Demonstrates excellent communication and patient care skills.

Qualifications:

• Certifications:
• Education:
  
  H.S. Diploma/GED (Required)
• Work Experience:

Responsibilities:

• Performs a variety of routine and complex blood drawing procedures including but not limited to venipuncture, finger and heel sticks, and blood cultures.
• Ensures quality by verifying patient identification and specimen labeling.
• Maintains appropriate response times to stat and timed orders.
• Serves as part of the trauma and code response teams.
• The Hospital Phlebotomy team services the patients at Carle Foundation Hospital.
• This team serves patients from newborn to geriatric in the Emergency Department and all inpatient and outpatient areas of the hospital.
• The Hospital Phlebotomy team works closely with a variety of healthcare professionals to collect blood specimens for diagnostic testing.
• The Hospital Phlebotomy team collects blood from approximately 400 patients each 24-hour period.
• Hospital Phlebotomists work every other weekend and 3-4 holidays per year and cover 1-2 call shifts each week.
• Patients and specimens are identified using two identifiers:
  Name/Date of Birth or Name/Medical Record Number.
• Venipunctures are performed using a vacutainer needle and hub, a hypodermic needle with syringe, or a butterfly needle system.
• Complex blood drawing procedures include a variety of specialized blood collection kits for commercial laboratories and/or research.
• Blood cultures collected at Carle require Chloroprep skin decontamination at the draw site and vary from collection of a simple tube collection for Acid Fast or Fungal cultures, a set of Bactec blood culture bottles, or involve nurse coordination for a single or multiple-lumen port collection.
• The inpatient and Emergency Department expectations for response times are that STAT tests will be collected within 15 minutes of order and TIMED tests will be collected within a 30 minute window of time around the specified collection time (up to 15 minutes before or 15 minutes after the time indicated).
• Phlebotomists collect initial blood specimens for all patients classified as a Trauma.
• Successfully participates in all accreditation and other proficiency testing and annual performance competencies in each of the clinical laboratory testing areas.
• Participates in re-education or re-training as needed to ensure successful completion of all Proficiency and competency testing.
• Follows and maintains familiarity with laboratory and organizational policies and procedures.
• Reviews and records documentation of review as required.
• Complete Continuing Education as required by Lab policy and to maintain certification if applicable.
• Communicates information with internal and external customers as appropriate in an accurate, timely, effective and professional manner.
• Phlebotomists must demonstrate the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.