United States
Medical technologist in Blood Bank Transfusion Services.
Medical technologist in Blood Bank, Hematology, Chemistry, and Microbiology. Perform both automated and manual testing and verify and report critical results. - Order, receive, assign, and distribute blood product units. Wash, irradiate, thaw, aliquot, and volume reduce blood products. Perform Type and Screen, Antibody Panels, DAT, and work ups for newborns and BMT patients. Perform Direct Coombs, Indirect Coombs, PeG, warmed, and saline crossmatches and testing. - Service Thalassemia and sickle cell population with tailored antigen negative blood products. - Assist Level 1 Trauma events in the ER, hand delivering universally compatible RBC and liquid plasma units and implementing mass transfusion protocol when indicated by the physician. STAT testing and notifications of TEG results for trauma patients. - Perform CBC with manual differential, coagulation testing, and urinalysis chemistries with microscopy and specific gravity for routine, oncology, and assistive home patients. - Perform chemistry and immunology testing including CMP, cardiac parameters, therapeutic drugs, and drugs of abuse testing. - Prepare and interpret CSF and blood culture gram stains and plating. Run SARS-CoV-2, respiratory pathogen panel, and Meningitis/Encephalitis panel testing and resulting.
Medical technologist in Hematology and Chemistry of the Core Laboratory. - Perform automated and manual patient testing. - Correlate results with patient history and diagnoses. - Utilize skills to recognize erroneous results due to pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical errors. - Prioritization of verifying and reporting STATS, critical values, and pending discharges. - Serve as a periodic Tech-in-Charge during days that lack a Lead Tech or Supervisor. Primary operator for Hematology analyzers. - Weekly QC/QA analyses. - Procedure writing and annual reviews. - Biannual calibration, linearity studies, method comparisons and validations. - Troubleshoot and rectify performance and patient flow issues through testing and implementation of new rules and procedures. - Troubleshoot and rectify instrumentation issues by investigating QC trends, patient population, peer review analyses, and working closely with the field service engineer. Involved in competencies and inspections. - CAP competency distribution and transcription (pre-analytic, analytic and post-analysis) of hematology, body fluid, and urinalysis proficiency testing. - Compile documentation and verify compliance for the Hematology CAP inspection checklist. - Serve as a Hematology expert during biennial CAP inspections, The Joint Commission inspections, and LFS State inspections. Lecture and train students and new hires. - Compose student, initial training, and annual competency tests, handouts and presentations. - Demonstrate automated and manual testing while correlating theory, principle, interpretation and clinical significance. Laboratory safety representative. - Perform monthly and mock internal inspection audits. - Active representative during DPH Medical Waste Inspections and Fire Department inspections. - Monthly laboratory safety committee meetings with the Laboratory Compliance Officer and fellow lab safety representatives. - Maintain updated lab safety and fire/disaster manuals.
Medical technologist in Chemistry involved in Comprehensive Metabolic Panels, Cardiac Markers and Immunosuppressive drugs. - Perform both automated and manual testing. - Verify and report critical results.
Train in the clinical laboratory under the supervision of CLS employees in the workplace. - Learn theories and principles of laboratory medicine. - Acquire techniques to perform diagnostic procedures and instrumentation. - Relate the clinical significance of laboratory procedures to patient diagnosis and treatment. - Utilize principles and practices of quality assurance. - Develop skills in communication and problem solving in a clinical environment.