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Mercy Medical Center - Cedar Rapids is Hiring a Medical Lab Scientist or Medical Lab Technician, Hiawatha Lab Near Rapids, IA
This position supports Mercy's philosophy of patient centered care by providing timely and accurate patient results in one or more areas of the clinical laboratory. Mercy welcomes both Medical Laboratory Scientist and Medical Laboratory Technician applicants. These laboratory professionals ensure test accuracy through compliance with regulatory requirements, performance and review of quality control, and active participation in performance improvement activities. Technologist/Scientist or Technician level certification through the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) or American Medical Technologists (AMT) is accepted.
This position supports Mercy's philosophy of patient centered care by providing timely and accurate patient results in one or more areas of the clinical laboratory. The Medical Laboratory Scientist ensures test accuracy through compliance with regulatory requirements, performance and review of quality control, and active participation in performance improvement activities.Job Duties
- May be required to perform specimen collection, including phlebotomy, respiratory swabs, and skin tests, with skill and compassion
- Educates and trains MLT and MLS students
- Uses laboratory information system access information, enter results, and generate reports
- Acts as a resource for laboratory medicine information to providers and others
- Assists in procedure writing, updating, and validating
- Actively seeks and identifies opportunities for process improvement
- Maintains and improves skills by participating in at least one continuing education activity annually
- Prioritizes workload to ensure timely reporting of results
- Communicates effectively and professionally with physicians, nurses, other medical personnel, patients, and families
- Follows laboratory procedures for test analysis, test reporting, and maintaining records of patient results
- Maintains, troubleshoots, and resolves issues with assays and instruments
- Performs, evaluates, and documents calibration and quality control; resolves issues as needed
- Performs analyses on a variety of biological specimens, including blood, urine, stool, body fluids and tissues
- Properly identifies patients and samples during the pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical phases of testing
- Ensure that accurate and clinically relevant information is communicated with patients, their families, and co-workers at hand-offs and other times as needed. Take all measures necessary to ensure that the appropriate and involved parties have communicated necessary information in order to allow for the best possible patient outcome
- Assist providers with special procedures as needed (for example, bone marrows)
- Knowledge of laboratory testing procedures
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements, including CAP, COLA, CLIA, TJC, and FDA
- Ability to work quickly and efficiently under pressure without sacrificing quality
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work with interruptions
- Skill to use standard laboratory instrumentation
- Skill to use the laboratory information system (LIS)
- Ability to critically think about test results in relation to patient condition
- Ability to recognize and correct problems with quality control
- Ability to recognize problems and troubleshoot laboratory equipment
- Ability to detail-oriented
- Ability to complete appropriate documentation and paperwork clearly and completely
- Experience preferred, but not required.
- Required: Bachelor's degree in medical laboratory, biological, or chemical science
- Required: Certification as an MLS(ASCP), MT(ASCP), or MT(AMT) within 18 months of hire
- Employees hired prior to 1/1/13 are grandfathered
Job Summary
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Hospital
$43k-54k (estimate)
02/04/2023
07/20/2024
www.mercycare.org
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
7,500 - 15,000
Jon Sweet
$500M - $1B
Hospital
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About Mercy Medical Center - Cedar Rapids
MercyCare Community Physicians has fifteen family practice clinics throughout the Cedar Rapids, Iowa area, including in Center Point, Hiawatha, Marion, Monticello, Mount Vernon, North Liberty and Tama. Two urgent care facilities and four specialty clinics are also part of the MCCP system. MCCP also offers billing and other administrative services to clients of its Managed Services Organizations. Established in 1995, MCCP is affiliated with Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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