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Job Type
Part-time
Description
Essential Job Responsibilities:
Education: Successful completion of 4 year medical technologist program.
Experience: Minimum two years of laboratory experience.
Other Requirements: Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of the job.
Knowledge
Performance Requirements:
Work Environment: Laboratory unit, well lighted and temperature controlled. Exposure to chemicals, communicable diseases, biohazards, and other conditions related to medical setting.
Mental/Physical Requirements: Varied activities including standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, lifting, and stooping. May occasionally need to lift/carry 50 pounds. Some stress related to ensuring accuracy of work.
Job Type
Part-time
Description
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Conduct chemical analysis of body fluids, including blood, urine, or spinal fluid, to determine presence of normal or abnormal components.
- Analyze laboratory findings to check the accuracy of the results.
- Enter data from analysis of medical tests or clinical results into computer for storage.
- Operate, calibrate, or maintain equipment used in quantitative or qualitative analysis, such as spectrophotometers, calorimeters, flame photometers, or computer-controlled analyzers.
- Establish or monitor quality assurance programs or activities to ensure the accuracy of laboratory results.
- Set up, clean, and maintain laboratory equipment.
- Provide technical information about test results to physicians, family members, or researchers.
- Collect and study blood samples to determine the number of cells, their morphology, or their blood group, blood type, or compatibility for transfusion purposes, using microscopic techniques.
- Analyze samples of biological material for chemical content or reaction.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education: Successful completion of 4 year medical technologist program.
Experience: Minimum two years of laboratory experience.
Other Requirements: Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of the job.
Knowledge
Performance Requirements:
- Knowledge of medical laboratory principles, standards, applications, and tests.
- Knowledge of use and maintenance of laboratory equipment and instruments.
- Knowledge of safety, infection control, and quality assurance policies and regulations.
- Skill in applying appropriate testing procedures.
- Skill in proper use, preventive maintenance, and repair.
- Skill in appropriate quality control and confidentiality procedures.
- Ability to exercise independent judgment, problem solve, make decisions, and use discretion in reporting/distributing results.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative relationships with patients, families, and staff.
- Ability to organize workload effectively and work quickly with high level of accuracy using manual/finger dexterity and eye–hand coordination.
Work Environment: Laboratory unit, well lighted and temperature controlled. Exposure to chemicals, communicable diseases, biohazards, and other conditions related to medical setting.
Mental/Physical Requirements: Varied activities including standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, lifting, and stooping. May occasionally need to lift/carry 50 pounds. Some stress related to ensuring accuracy of work.