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Summary:
Provides customer services and schedule services and performs phlebotomy within the UNC Rex Laboratory departments.
Mon - Fri 1:30p-10p
Responsibilities:
1) Wears appropriate PPE at all times. Replaces PPE that is soiled or damaged. Maintains a professional work area throughout the shift. Ensures at the end of the shift that supplies are restocked, bench tops and any soiled areas are cleaned.
2) Demonstrates appropriate Customer Service skills when answering the phone, taking and giving messages, transferring calls and reporting laboratory results verbally and/or by fax. Ensures communication with coworkers is done in a professional manner. Works collaboratively with all areas to ensure accuracy and completeness of procedures and processes. Answers telephone within three (3) rings and provides information to optimize laboratory communication. Notifies doctor, nurse or unit staff if collection will be delayed or cancelled.
3) Maintains proficiency in both the Hospital ADT system and the LIS/IT computer programs. Registers patients and orders test in appropriate computer system as required. Keeps current with insurance updates and software changes. Receives and places orders for laboratory services. Retrieves laboratory results from hospital EMR for physicians and patients.
4) Obtains demographic information from patients or from the laboratory requisition. Enters accurate information into the appropriate information system. Completes all federal and regulatory forms required for the registration process including obtaining signed consents and financial agreements. Orders laboratory tests directly into the electronic medical record.
5) Performs specimen collection by venipuncture, fingerstick and culture techniques as required following documented policies and procedures. Provides instructions for patients and customers regarding appropriate specimen collections. Verifies specimen requirements and appropriate collection procedures prior to specimen collection. Maintains positive patient identification throughout the collection process. Collects urine and blood alcohol specimens in compliance with documented chain of custody procedures. Assures appropriate forms are utilized with complete and accurate information and documentation.
6) Registers Outreach specimens according to standard operating procedure. Sorts courier drop offs and documents on received log. Registers specimens and orders appropriate test. Accurately labels specimens according to standard operating procedures. Follows proper protocol to ensure the integrity of all laboratory specimens.
7) Maintains departmental supplies and inventory. Prepares solutions, reagents and stains following standard operating procedures. Alerts appropriate staff of inventory concerns. Uses reagents with shorter expiration before using those with longer expiration dates. Ensures samples and reagents are stored in the appropriate location and are discarded at the proper intervals.
8) Responsible for training, education and required reading. Assists in training and education of new and fellow employees. Responsible for reading procedures during training and subsequent revisions. Must document review of revised and new standard operating procedures prior to the approval date. Expected to assist with writing, revising and validating of standard operating procedures as requested. Responsible for review and acknowledgement of mandatory policies, job description and completion of annual safety training within the time frames established by the organization. Maintains continuing education requirement per year according to policy. Completes competency materials within established time period.
Legal Employer: NCHEALTH
Entity: UNC REX Healthcare
Organization Unit: Rex Outreach Client Services
Work Type: Full Time
Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
Salary Range: $18.20 - $25.86 per hour (Hiring Range)
Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
Work Assignment Type: Onsite
Work Schedule: Evening Job
Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No
This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.
Full Time | Part Time
Hospital
$47k-58k (estimate)
04/25/2023
07/05/2024
www.unchealthcare.org
Morrisville, North Carolina
15,000 - 50,000
Tom Murray
<$5M
Hospital
The UNC Health Care System is a not-for-profit integrated health care system, founded in 1998, owned by the State of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill. It exists to further the teaching mission of the University of North Carolina and to provide state-of-the-art patient care. A distinguishing characteristic of UNC Health Care is its association with the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, a nationally eminent research institution. This relationship gives UNC Health Care a powerful pathway for moving the results of biomedical research from medical school laboratories to patient care settin...gs. UNC Health Care has been granted broad powers by the North Carolina General Assembly to assure its management flexibility and competitiveness in a rapidly changing health care business environment. The enterprise is governed by a board of directors appointed by the University of North Carolina.
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