Lab Assistant Specialist at Aiea

Job Description

The Laboratory Assistant Specialist performs all the duties of the lab assistant and performs lab testing under the direct supervision of medical technologists.

Responsibilities:

• Performs all essential duties of a laboratory assistant, including on-site phlebotomy and drug screen collections
• Performs lab testing under the direct supervision of medical technologist as applicable at testing site

- Chemistry/Special Chemistry: Prepares specimens to be loaded to analyzers and verifies patient identification throughout the process. May prepare standardized reagents utilized by the analyzer(s), performs waived testing.

- Hematology: Prepares peripheral smears; may set up retic counts and sedimentation rates, may load pre-labeled specimens into automatic cell counters.

- Urinalysis: Describes physical properties of urine samples (color and clarity), may dip urine test strips and load to automatic strip readers.

- Microbiology: Receives and stores prepared media by expiration date; plates bacteriologic culture specimens to appropriate media; prepares stool specimens for ova and parasite testing; prepares gram stains or other allowable staining

- Blood Bank: Performs clerical and other non-technical procedures as trained and under the direction of the technologist or supervisor

• Performs blood gas analysis as applicable at testing site
• Checks with toxicology to verify all collections, NIDA and non-NIDA, are per DOT guidelines
• May be trained as a Breath Alcohol Technician (BAT) and perform testing per regulations
• May be a certified dangerous goods packer/shipper
• May be cross-trained as a backup receptionist handling cash and credit cards for PDS
• May be assigned to work at various locations as required
• Responsible for maintaining on-going re-certification
• Adheres to safety, confidentiality, compliance, and legal requirements
• Must have reliable and consistent attendance and comply with Company guidelines on attendance
• Performs other duties assigned

Job Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Minimum one-year phlebotomy experience preferred
• Knowledge of medical terminology
• Minimum three month intensive in-lab training with appropriate written exam provided by the Medical Technologist Supervisor. Successfully pass exam with satisfactory or good performance
• Successfully pass Company pre-employment drug test and periodic and random thereafter

Country: USA, State: Hawaii, City: Aiea, Company: Clinical Laboratories of Hawaii, LLP.