Job highlights
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Qualifications
- 2 – 4 years + Phlebotomy experience
- Phlebotomy certification
- Ability to perform venipuncture
- Familiarity with specimen collection processing and blood sampling
- Excellent computer skills
Benefits
- Monday to Friday
Responsibilities
- This is a 3 month temporary assignment with the potential to extend or go permanent
- Perform venipuncture and collect blood specimens from patients in an inpatient setting
- Labeling specimens, centrifuging specimens, recording maintenance data and decontamination, updating patient information, etc
- Collects and stores specimens according to established procedures
- Properly explains in a clear but courteous manner the process of the venipuncture (blood drawing) and or other specimen collection (ex. urine or fecal) as required
- Demonstrate technique/s using straight needles and/or butterfly needles
- Fully understand all of the physicians’ orders
- Matches laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes
- Label, centrifuge, split, and freeze specimens as required by test order
- Check all test requisitions or computer label against script to ensure 100% correct
- Package specimens for transport
- Stores specimen sample according to required temperature, places samples in appropriate collection container/ tube, accurately labels, follows different procedures as outlined by specific to protocol deemed necessary for transport to maintain integrity of the specimen
- Understand and comply with OSHA and DEP regulations
- Attend annual department trainings
- Answer telephone calls, read laboratory results to satisfy inquiries