Phlebotomist- PRN

Shenandoah Medical Center; Shenandoah (IA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Shenandoah Medical Center seeks a Laboratory Technician to collect and label specimens, perform tests, and ensure accurate reporting of results. The role emphasizes strict adherence to procedures, quality control, and patient safety within a clinical lab setting.

You will monitor equipment, maintain records, and participate in safety and infection-control programs to support high-quality patient care. This on-site position requires teamwork and compliance with hospital policies.

Qualifications

• Collect and label specimens while maintaining integrity.
• Perform tests per written procedures and manufacturers' recommendations.
• Review and verify patient results; communicate critical values promptly.
• Maintain supply inventory to prevent shortages in assigned areas.
• Follow infection control, disposal, and safety procedures.

Responsibilities

• Maintains records and reports as directed.
• Calibrates, maintains, and runs quality control on instruments.

Skills

Specimen collection

Test procedures

Quality control

Result reporting

Safety & infection control

Equipment maintenance

Laboratory information systems

Tools

Laboratory information system

Job description

1.Follows established departmental and SMC policies and procedures, objectives, quality control and performance improvement programs, safety, environmental, and infection control standards.

• Receives and/or collects specimens and labels them appropriately, maintaining specimen integrity until specimens are discarded following established policies and procedures for specimen retention.
• Consistently performs test procedures following written procedures conforming to current standards and manufacturers recommendations.
• Reviews and verifies patient results prior to reporting and communicates critical values and other grossly abnormal results to the appropriate healthcare personnel in a timely manner, following established policies.
• Performs supply inventory as assigned to prevent shortages in assigned work areas.
• Implements infectious disease controls as appropriate including isolation procedures, proper use of hand washing and gloves.
• Follows proper procedures for disposal of sharps and hazardous materials.
• Cleans and maintains laboratory equipment as directed.

2.Maintains current knowledge and training on equipment and procedures.

• Performs required calibration, maintenance, and quality control of instruments and procedures.
• Notifies supervisor promptly of customer concerns, unsafe conditions, and malfunctioning instruments/test procedures.
• Maintains competence in computer skills pertaining to order entry, and laboratory computer system orders, collections, result entry, patient report retrieval, and report printing tasks.
• Attends required SMC and departmental safety, compliance, and infection control in-services.
• Maintains knowledge of coding and billing policies as they pertain to determination of medical necessity and federally mandated reimbursement.
• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, and in-service meetings.

3.Performs and maintains documentation.

• Maintains required records, reports, and statistics, as directed.
• Documents accurate and ongoing assessments of patient status that reflect nursing interventions, patient responses, patient teaching and status of outcomes at discharge.
• Completes shift end check prior to leaving duty.

4.Performs other duties as assigned.

Equal Opportunity Employer
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