At Powell Valley Healthcare, providing quality healthcare to our community is our top priority. We are located in the heart of Powell, Wyoming;

just 25 miles outside of Cody. We believe in creating positive and safe environments for both our patients and our staff.

Being part of our organization means becoming a cornerstone in the patient experience and their care.

Here at PVHC, we offer a wide array of benefits in a way that allows you to choose options and build a package that works best for you.

Some of the benefits we offer to our full-time and part-time staff include :

• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Long term disability coverage
• PTO New employees accrue the equivalent of up to twenty days of PTO withing their first calendar year
• EIB (Extended Illness Bank) Our version of accrued sick leave
• Nine paid holidays which includes two personal holidays
• Tuition Savings Plan
• Opportunities to cash out PTO for personal use, student loan payments, and in-house medical bills
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,000 per year
• Fun to be Fit program and Club Dauntless Membership Discount
• HRA Flex spending accounts

POSITION SUMMARY :

Current Opening : One Full-time position (40 hours per week).

The Medical Laboratory Aide obtains blood, urine, and other biological specimens and performs various chemical, microbiological, immunohematological, and bacteriological tests on these specimens to obtain data for use in diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Performs varied duties consisting of, but not limited to phlebotomy skills, specimen procurement and processing, support for clinical testing, order processing, report distribution and client services.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS :

• Obtains, or aids in obtaining, specimens for laboratory analysis, including blood, urine, and other body fluids and tissues according to providers’ orders and the established procedures of the laboratory.
• Obtains blood specimens by capillary puncture, venipuncture, on patients of varying age ranges, including infant (birth to one year), Child (one to ten years, adolescent (ten to eighteen years), adult (eighteen to sixty-five years), and geriatric (greater than sixty-five years).
• Performs various clerical duties required to collect and process specimens and assures that appropriate test results are communicated to the appropriate persons.
• Ensures that providers’ orders are processed accurately and thoroughly by reading and verifying, investigating test requirements, collecting patient information, computer order entry, and distributing lab reports accordingly.
• Processes reference laboratory specimens to include specimen log-in, packaging for transport, completing all requisitions, verifying billing information, receiving and distributing reports and maintaining logs.
• Processes specimens including assisting with maintenance and Quality control, microbiology set-ups and plating, and performs CLIA waived tests under when needed.
• Uses and operates such equipment as blood drawing equipment, centrifuges, computers and drying ovens.
• Aids in maintaining adequate inventories of all laboratory supplies.
• Maintain, collect and distribute records for equipment used in the laboratory as well as patient results and logs.
• Assists in training and orienting new laboratory personnel.
• Other Duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED :

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Knowledge of medical terminology is helpful and preferred.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED :

• Read and interpret a variety of policy and procedure manuals, requisitions, and test results written in English.
• Write legibly in order to report test results and other information accurately and effectively.
• Speak and write effectively in order to communicate quickly with co-workers in the hospital in a variety of situations.
• Speak and communicate politely and maintain good customer (patient) relations.
• Maintain patient confidentiality at all times.
• Lean and apply electronic medical applications.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS / REQUIREMENTS :

• Sighted persons with near and far range acuity and good accommodation in order to use equipment in the laboratory, to draw blood specimens from patients, to examine relations involving end-points requiring visual interpretation, to accurately describe objects, to find their way about the hospital, and to read and interpret a variety of written materials.
• Good depth perception is required in order to accurately and quickly manipulate a variety of pieces of laboratory equipment and materials in a safe and efficient manner.
• Hear a variety of sound signals that are used to time tests and operate equipment’s.
• Be able to provide care according to the developmental level and or chronological age of a patient served.
• Identify the needs and abilities of each patient, and demonstrate an understanding of how a patient’s chronological and developmental age influences his / her need for adaptations related to his / her abilities.
• May be subject to exposure to toxic chemicals, biological agents, blood, body fluids and radiation materials.
• Standing and walking to a significant degree : light work
• Be able to reach, handle, finger, and feel in order to operate equipment and manipulate utensils quickly and accurately.
• Significant exposure to various hazardous and / or toxic materials, including blood and other body fluids, acids, bases, and carcinogens, there is incidental exposure to formalin.
• There is significant exposure to mechanical hazards when dealing with various pieces of laboratory equipment.
• May be requested to work weekends, holidays and overtime to meet the need of the department.

Last updated : 2024-05-14