What are the responsibilities and job description for the Phlebotomist position at CASS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER?
Department Name: Laboratory
Title: Phlebotomist
EEOC Classification: Craft Worker-Non-Exempt
Date: January 2025
PART ONE: Dimension and Description
Primary Purpose: Order, collect and process patient specimens.
Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities: Provides input into policies associated with specimen collection and processing.
Routine Decision Making: Ensures appropriate tests are performed on the patients.
Formal Supervisory Responsibility: No formal supervisory responsibility.
Required Knowledge: Knowledge of appropriate collection procedures and medical terminology.
Required Skills and Ability: Data entry, communication skills, customer service skills, and phlebotomy skills.
Unusual Working Conditions: Risk of blood, body fluid contamination.
Age Specific Competencies: Provides care for birth to pediatric (birth-2 yrs.), pediatric/child patients between (2 yrs-12 yrs); adolescent patients between 12 to 18 years of age; adult patients between 18 to 64 years; and geriatric patients 65 years and older.
Work Schedule: The Phlebotomist will be expected to work day shifts, rotating holidays, and weekends and evening shifts as needed or determined by the Laboratory Director.
Qualifications:Education and Certification/ Registration required for the Position: Technical or vocational school education preferred. Minimum 2 years of experience preferred.