Lab Assistant - Westchester Medical Center
Valhalla, NY 10595
About the Job
not limited to, logging-in the units, thawing plasma, thawing and pooling cryoprecipitate, irradiate products and washing RBCs; setting up patient or blood product samples for testing by a technologist/automated machine; maintenance of lab equipment.
Responsibilities:
- Handles blood and blood products by accessioning patient samples, spinning down the blood in the centrifuge and logging all blood products in the computer
- Set up, maintain, calibrate, clean, and test sterility of medical laboratory equipment.
- Prepare solutions used for laboratory testing and procedures
- Prepare specimens for testing under the guidance of a medical technologist.
- Ensures all computer entries are accurate.
- Places orders in LIS and files various documents
- Provides customer assistance by answering the phone for the department
- Receives customer orders and communicates these orders to the technologists
- Screens all other calls and directs them as appropriate
Qualifications/Requirements:
Experience: Some experience in a laboratory setting. Any combination of education, training and experience that has supplied the necessary knowledge, skills and experience to perform the essential functions of the job
Education: High School Diploma or equivalent
Licenses / Certifications: N/A
Other:
- Demonstrate competency in routine testing in assigned Laboratory area.
- Ability to effectively relate and communicate with internal and external customers.
- Basic knowledge of laboratory information systems.
Ability to organize tasks and projects work without close supervision to complete tasks
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