Phlebotomist - Augusta, ME

Job Title: Phlebotomist

Specialty: Phlebotomy / Laboratory Medical Technician

Place of Work (City/State): Augusta, Maine

Site: VA Maine Healthcare System (Togus), VA Maine Medical Center

Location: 1 VA Center, Augusta, ME 04330.

Duration: 1 year contract with the possible of 4 more years extension

Shift Schedule

• Day shift: 09:00 to 05:30 (2 FTE)
• Evening shift: 3:00 to 11:30 (2 FTE)
• Rotating weekends, approximately 1 to 2 per month. Weekend day 0600 to 1400, weekend evening 1330 to 2100.
• Weekends, holidays, and overtime may be required.
  
  

How Many Shifts Needed Per Month: Weekend coverage is approximately 1 to 2 weekends per month per position, subject to lab needs. Weekend/holiday/evening hours are estimated at 8 hours per month per position.

Credentialing / Onboarding Time: 6 weeks to 8 weeks

License: Any state license works.

Certifications

• BLS
• Phlebotomist certification
  
  

Experience Needed: 3 years of recent phlebotomy experience

Special Skills Needed

• Fluent English: speak, understand, read, and write
• Proficient in inpatient ward rounds, inpatient and outpatient draws, Emergency Department, STAT, ASAP, and timed draws
• Positive patient and specimen identification
• Sample processing and send-out preparation
• Quality control documentation and resolution of collection, processing, testing, or reporting issues
  
  

Responsibilities

• Perform patient phlebotomy across inpatient ward rounds, inpatient, outpatient, ED, STAT, ASAP, and timed draws.
• Perform sample processing and send-out preparation.
• Positively identify patients prior to collection and samples prior to testing or aliquoting.
• Safeguard electronic and paper patient information.
• Independently test, evaluate, document, and report patient testing and quality control.
• Identify, document, and resolve collection, processing, testing, or reporting issues.
• Provide patient-centered care in a professional manner.
• Complete QM/PI documentation per the laboratory quality plan.
• Report patient safety events to the COR within 24 hours.
• Participate in laboratory quality improvement meetings (monthly, 12 hours/year) and staff meetings (monthly, 12 hours/year).