Medical Technologist 2 - 40 hours/week, evening shift

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Pre-analytical Specimen Processing

• Demonstrates proficiency in determining specimen requirements blood collections for all age groups, order entry, order query, specimen accessioning, and specimen distributions.

• Sorts all samples to allow for fast retrieval

• Proficient in collecting blood successfully on difficult patients

• Utilizes two forms of patient identification.

• Evaluates and processes all lab specimens according to specimen acceptability policy.

Analytic testing

• Accurately performs laboratory analyses on patient specimens.

• Verifies completed work only after careful review of order priority, completeness, absurd results, critical values and special requests.

Quality Control

• Performs quality control testing as required for each analyte.

• Ensures that results pass quality control criteria before verifying results.

• Participates in quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

• Brings forward quality concerns and issues in a timely manner following the proper chain of command

Instrument Maintenance

• Skillfully performs required instrumentation maintenance so that analyzers will perform optimally over a longer period of time.

• Documents all entries.

• Documents all problems and report them to supervisor.

STAT Testing Turnaround Times

• Recognizes STAT testing priorities.

• Turnaround times shall not exceed established limits defined in the Laboratory STAT Testing Policy.

Accuracy of Results

• Reviews results for critical values, delta variances, unusual or absurd results, and result completeness prior to certification and release of information.

• Always telephones critical results to clinician.

• Obtains read back and documents

LIS Proficiency

• Maximally utilizes the features of the LIS system to enable productive and efficient use of time.

• Report problems encountered to Information Services Department to allow for times resolution.

Minimum Education:

A bachelor’s degree is required in medical laboratory science or clinical laboratory science, or related biological science.

Required Licenses
ASCP certification or registry eligible required.