Phlebotomy Technician

Mercy Medical Center; United States; On-site; USD 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Mercy Cedar Rapids is seeking a Phlebotomy Technician to provide timely and accurate specimen collection and laboratory support. You will demonstrate compassion, deliver outstanding customer service, and maintain professional behavior while handling patient samples.

Responsibilities include phlebotomy, specimen labeling, and communicating results to care teams. Training will cover safety and quality procedures, with opportunities to participate in continuing education.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Graduate of a phlebotomy training program or medical assisting program.
• Experience preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Perform specimen collection, including phlebotomy and skin tests, with skill and compassion.
• Properly identify patients and samples during all testing phases.
• Use EPIC to access and enter information and communicate with care teams.

Skills

Venipuncture

Capillary collection

TB placement

Communication

Detail-oriented

Multi-tasking

Customer service

Education

Phlebotomy training

ASCP PBT

AMT RPT

NHA CPT

Tools

EPIC

Job description

External applicants are eligible for an up to $1,500 sign on bonus! Hours are 4am-12:30pm and every 3rd weekend/holiday. Work Shift Day. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40.

Summary

This position supports Mercy's philosophy of patient centered care by providing timely and accurate specimen collection and other laboratory support functions. The Phlebotomy Technician exhibits compassion towards our patients, provides outstanding customer service, and demonstrates professional behavior.

Job Duties

• Ensure that accurate and clinically relevant information is communicated with patients, their families, and co-workers at handoffs and other times as needed.
• Take all measures necessary to ensure that the appropriate and involved parties have communicated necessary information to allow for the best possible patient outcome.
• Prioritizes workload to ensure timely collection of patient samples.
• Properly identifies patients and samples during the pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical phases of testing.
• Perform specimen collection, including phlebotomy and skin tests, with skill and compassion.
• Follows laboratory procedures for specimen collection and all other duties.
• Uses laboratory information system (EPIC) to access and enter information.
• Communicates effectively and professionally with physicians, nurses, other medical personnel, patients, and families.
• Assists with education and training new staff and students.
• Maintains laboratory with general cleaning, stocking, and upkeep.
• Fulfill clinic supply orders and transfer to receiving dock for delivery.
• Maintains and improves skills by participating in at least one continuing education activity annually.
• Actively seeks and identifies opportunities for process improvement.
• Participates in off-site collections and rotates to lab locations outside the hospital as required.
• Areas trained and maintained competency: Inpatient Floors and Emergency Department.
• Follows Mercy's safety guidelines, carries out job-specific safety duties and responsibilities, and promptly reports any unsafe conditions, situations, incidents, and injuries.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of specimen collection procedures, including venipuncture, capillary collection, and TB placement.
• Knowledge of different patient populations and their needs, including neonatal, pediatric, geriatric, and trauma.
• Ability to work quickly and efficiently under pressure without sacrificing quality.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work with interruptions.
• Skills to use the laboratory information system (EPIC).
• Ability to be detail-oriented.
• Ability to complete appropriate documentation and paperwork clearly and completely.
• Exhibits outstanding customer service to patients, families and colleagues.

Professional Experience

Experience preferred but not required.

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.

• Graduate of a phlebotomy training program or medical assisting program.

Licensure, Certification, Registration

• American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), PBT (ASCP)
• American Medical Technologists (AMT, RPT (AMT))
• National Healthcareer Association (NHA), CPT (NHA)

Physical Requirements

Light: Exert up to 20 lbs. of force occasionally and/or up to 10 lbs. of force frequently.

Pay Rate Type

Hourly.

Company Information

Mercy is an independent, community-based organization supporting the Cedar Rapids area for over 120 years.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Mercy is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion and therefore evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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