Job Description

Location: Carney Hospital
Posted Date: 1/15/2024
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: $29.40-$43.68
Department: 0401.51520 CARN Core Lab

About Steward Health Care
Over a decade ago, Steward Health Care System emerged as a different kind of health care company designed to usher in a new era of wellness. One that provides our patients better, more proactive care at a sustainable cost, our providers unrivaled coordination of care, and our communities greater prosperity and stability.

As the country's largest physician-led, minority-owned, integrated health care system, our doctors can be certain that we share their interests and those of their patients. Together we are on a mission to revolutionize the way health care is delivered - creating healthier lives, thriving communities and a better world.

Based in Dallas, Steward currently operates more than 30 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

For more information, visit steward.org

POSITION SUMMARY:

Medical Lab Technician III's perform a variety of routine and specialized diagnostic medical lab tests as requested by healthcare staff according to established protocols and procedures.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Plans and organizes all assigned work according to defined policies/procedures for a specific laboratory or as directed by immediate supervisor.
  • Evaluates test results using laboratory specific procedures defined in the dept. policy/procedure manual.
  • Performs stat testing according to laboratory policy or as directed by immediate supervisor.
  • Telephone all panic results immediately to appropriate nursing or medical staff member as directed by laboratory policy/procedure manual and as directed by immediate supervisor.
  • Complete all work sheets related to assigned work according to instructions in the laboratory policy/procedure manual or as directed by immediate supervisor before the end of shift.
  • Perform required preventive maintenance according to procedure and schedules defined in department manuals.
  • Initiate appropriate action as indicated by shifts in QC data.
  • Correctly run proper controls for each assay concurrent with all patient assays.
  • Plot values on quality control charts and enters data into laboratory computer immediately upon completion of quality control procedure.
  • Evaluate, according to specific instructions for individual laboratory, quality control results prior to reporting any patient results.
  • Document all corrective actions taken as a result of control values exceeding tolerance limits 100% of the time.
  • Complies with all safety policies, and procedures 100% of the time.
  • Maintains universal precautions with no incidence of failure to comply with lab policies and procedures.
  • Practices segregation of biohazard trash with no incidences of failure.
  • Safely handles needles and biological specimens with no incidence of failure to comply with policies and procedures.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

  • ASCP board certification preferred.
  • Candidate must be generalist with some transfusion medicine knowledge.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/LICENSURE/TECHNICAL/OTHER:

  1. Education: Candidate must have completed an MLT or MT degree program.
  2. Experience (Type & Length): Experience in basic transfusion medicine is also required. This is a generalist position and knowledge of all aspects of clinical laboratory is expected.
  3. Certification/Licensure: ASCP board certification preferred.
  4. Software/Hardware:

Steward Health Care is proud to be a minority, physician owned organization. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are at the foundation of the care we provide, the community services we support and all our employment practices. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic.

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