Lab Assistant- Send-Out section

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health's Laboratory Assistant position supports laboratory staff in coordinating patient care and performing phlebotomy when required. The role covers patient testing, specimen collection, and quality control in a fast-paced hospital setting.

Day shifts in Louisiana require adherence to SOPs, accurate labeling with two identifiers, and collaboration with lab leadership to ensure timely test processing and sample integrity.

Qualifications

• Performs patient testing up to moderate complexity.
• Performs venipuncture and skin puncture per SOPs.
• Communicates effectively in writing and verbally.

Responsibilities

• Performs patient testing up to moderate complexity.
• Performs venipuncture and skin puncture on all age groups.
• Maintains daily temperature checks, calibration, and quality control in the department.
• Ensures supplies are stocked and within expiration dates.
• Transcribes orders from outside providers as needed.
• Delivers specimens to the correct Lab Section and notes collection details.

Skills

Phlebotomy

Patient care

Laboratory procedures

Job description

Your job is more than a job. The Laboratory Assistant, LSBME assists the laboratory staff in the coordination of patient care. Performs phlebotomy procedures when required.

Why a Great Place to Work

You’re more than your job. Everyone is. And that’s what makes you great at your job—all the little extras you bring to work every day, the things that make you you. At LCMC Health we value those things about you, because we know that all those little extras add up to extraordinary. And we’ve built a culture that supports and celebrates the extraordinary. You’ll see it when you come to work here, in the spirit of our places and the faces of our people. And every patient we heal, every family we comfort, every life we improve is the outcome of countless little extras adding up to an extraordinary result. Join LCMC Health, and you’ll find that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary.

GENERAL DUTIES

Patient Testing

• Performs patient testing up to moderate complexity

General Laboratory

• Performs daily temperature checks, analyzer maintenance, calibrations, and quality control in the assigned department
• Notifies appropriate testing staff when expected quality control values are not achieved or quality control ranges are exceeded
• Ensure department supplies are appropriately stocked and available

Specimen Collection

• Performs venipuncture and skin puncture on all patient age groups in accordance with department SOP
• Performs appropriate patient identification according to SOP, utilizing at least two patient identifiers when collecting and labeling specimens at the bedside in the presence of the patient
• Labels aliquots using at least two patient identifiers
• Transcribes orders from outside providers as necessary
• Responds to applicable code teams as needed
• Adherence to blood and body fluid universal special precautions outlined by laboratory and organizational policies

Workload Management

• Adheres to SOP in using handheld devices for specimen collection
• Monitors collection list and documents status of outstanding collections
• Monitors expected list for pending lab tests
• Answers phone calls, demonstrating appropriate customer service skills
• Must work weekends and holidays as assigned

Inventory Management

• Ensures specimen collection supplies are available and within expiration dates
• Notifies laboratory leadership when supplies are falling below thresholds or expiration dates are upcoming
• Stocks supplies when deliveries are received
• Stocks phlebotomy carts with supplies, ensuring adequate inventory available on cart for next shift

Specimen Handling And Receipt

• Ensures that specimens are updated to received status and collection date/time, collector, and receipt date/time is accurate
• Delivers specimens to the appropriate Lab Section.

Quality Assurance Related Duties

• Communicates complaints or problems to department supervisor

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Laboratory Assistant Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners

Skills And Abilities

• Accurately complete, maintain patient documents and records.
• Understand and follow specific clinical protocol and be able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

Work Shift

Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

Children’s Hospital, at the heart of LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, has been the go-to hospital for expert children’s health, wellness, and one-of-a-kind care in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. Learn more about Children’s Hospital’s 40+ specialties and our national ranking by U.S. News & World Report as a Best Children's Hospital

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

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.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.