Job Description: Basic Purpose:
Responsible for performing routine and non-routine activities pertaining to laboratory testing and the reporting of results. Performs moderately difficult to complex tasks. Performs assigned analytical testing procedures in an accurate, precise, and timely manner.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Follow the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses,
- reporting and maintaining records of patient test result;
- Maintain records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens;
- Analyze specimens using approved testing procedures (see department SOPs). Review and release test results.
- Follow CLIA, HIPAA, OSHA, and safety guidelines as described in their respective
- guidelines.
- Adhere to the laboratory's quality control policies, document all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and all maintenance performed;
- Follow the laboratory's established policies and procedures whenever test systems are no within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance.
- Identify problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results, correct the problems encountered or immediately notify the senior technologist or supervisor.
- Document all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory's established performance specifications.
Qualifications:
Education: BS in Medical Technology; or BS/BA in Chemistry or Biology, or Previously qualified as a Technologist under 42 CFR 493.1433 published in March 14, 1990.
- Work Experience: 1 year Clinical experience (high complexity testing) preferred.
- Minimum of one year of clinical laboratory experience in highly complex
- testing for those with BS/BA in Chemistry or Biology.
