Shift: M-F | No Weekends | Four 8 hour shifts and one 6.5 hour shift between the hours of 8AM - 8PM
Responsibilities:

• Follow the mandatory reporting procedures for any incident or serious event that did affect or potentially could have affected the clinical care of any patient.
• Ensure that all samples are properly labeled so the lab assistants or technologists can process them.
• Photocopy reports and other materials as directed.
• Record all laboratory test results when cases are completed.
• Assist technologists and lab manager in research projects by compiling appropriate patient information and test results.
• Require the interpersonal ability to interact with physicians, hospital staff and students, and outside laboratories.
• File all patient charts after reports have been mailed.
• Answer telephones in the lab whenever possible and directs calls as necessary.
• Require technical ability necessary to operate a computer and accurately and appropriately bill patients on hospital's computerized billing system.
• Call referring physician or institution to obtain missing information on referral sheets (i.e. reason for referral, birth dates, billing info.).
• Retrieve specimens from labor and delivery, lab collection center, NICU, ER, and surgical pathology when called that samples are available.
• Log in all samples received by the cytogenetics laboratory on both log-in sheets in the department computer database (MEDGIS).
• File all amniotic fluid alpha-fetoprotein reports in the amniotic fluid patient charts for inclusion in final report.
• Maintain records of all patient information and creates patient charts.
• Require clerical ability necessary to maintain records, calculates appropriate statistics from lab data, and maintains a filing system.
• Accession all bone marrows and cancer bloods in the Co Path computer system.
• Mail all patient reports to referring physicians, institutions, and medical records.

*Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.

*Performs other duties as assigned.