Medical Tech WMLM (PRN)

WellStar Health System; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellstar Mountain Lakes Medical Center in the United States seeks a Clinical Laboratory Technician to perform testing under supervision, following approved protocols, and to maintain equipment and records.

You will participate in quality assurance, proficiency testing, and timely reporting of results, while ensuring specimen identification and proper hand-offs to the team.

Qualifications

• Performs clinical laboratory testing according to approved protocols.
• Maintains QA activities and proficiency testing.
• Ensures accurate patient/ specimen identification.

Responsibilities

• Maintains accuracy in patient testing and QA/proficiency/competency testing.
• Identifies patient specimens correctly.
• Documents QA investigations and trends.
• Maintains instrumentation and analyzes lab data.
• Reports results within established turnaround times.
• Verifies data in LIS and hands off information per protocol.
• Adheres to Wellstars Standards of Behavior.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Proficiency Testing

Critical Thinking

Communication

Lab Data Interpretation

Documentation

Instrumentation Maintenance

Clinical Lab Testing

Tools

LIS

Job description

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives. Work Shift Night (United States of America)

Job Summary:

Under the general supervision of the Supervisors, Manager or Director; performs clinical laboratory testing pursuant to established and approved protocols requiring the exercise of independent judgment and responsibility, maintains equipment and records, performs quality assurance activities related to test performance and may supervise and teach within the laboratory setting. Accuracy: Maintains acceptable accuracy in-patient, quality assurance, proficiency, and competency testing. Critical Thinking: Uses clinical/ theoretical knowledge to analyze, investigate, interpret, and report lab data. Job Knowledge: Maintains current personal training, education and practice of policies and procedures. Productivity: Practices organizational skills for efficiency of time, materials, cost, and availability of lab data Communication: Practices information monitoring, investigation, resolution, and hand-off to team members. Performs other duties as assigned.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Maintains acceptable accuracy in patient, quality assurance, proficiency, and competency testing.

• * a. Meets department standard for correct patient or specimen identification.
• * b. Meets department standard for error rate in testing or reporting patient or QC results.
• * c. Consistently documents investigation and correct interpretation of QA failures or trends.
• * d. Earns acceptable scores in proficiency testing and personnel competency testing.
• * e. Maintains instrumentation for testing. Uses clinical/ theoretical knowledge to analyze, investigate, interpret, and report lab data.

Uses clinical/ theoretical knowledge to analyze, investigate, interpret, and report lab data.

• * a. Reports lab data accurately and within established turnaround times and productivity standards.
• * b. Recognizes the relationship between lab data and clinical findings or expectations.
• * d. Interprets information from multiple sources

Practices information monitoring, investigation, resolution, and hand-off to team members.

• * a. Complies with Pending Log procedure for tracking laboratory test status.
• * b. Documents in the LIS all elements of the Notification Value Call procedure.
• * c. Hands-off information to others according to the department procedure and chain of command.
• * d. Adheres to WellStars Standards of Behavior in a consistent fashion.