What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lab Assistant - Center City, Phila. - FT-Nights position at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital?
Job Details
The Laboratory Assistant supports lab operations by processing and handling patient specimens for diagnostic testing in an accurate and timely manner and following established protocols. The Lab Assistant is responsible for receiving, centrifuging, storing, and transporting / distributing samples according to protocol in order to maintain sample integrity. The Lab Assistant provides customer service in all interactions with patients, physician and nursing personnel when providing instruction and assistance regarding laboratory testing results. May perform basic laboratory techniques and or testing congruent with CLIA requirements; and / or phlebotomy and collect blood specimens via venipuncture or other micro-technique as required by local needs.
Job Description
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintains orderly and timely flow of specimens to the technical departments to
- expedite the analysis of samples.
- Reviews lab requisitions from physicians for accuracy, completeness, medical necessity, and hospital's ability to perform test and / or route specimen for testing.
- Prepares specimens for analysis, including centrifuging, aliquoting, plating, etc.
- Performs registrations per hospital policy in order to provide assistance to patients and hospital personnel.
- May coordinates the loading of prepared patient samples on the automation lines to ensure timely sampling (where required by local laboratory needs).
MINIMUM EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, AND CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Work Shift
Rotating (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Primary Location Address
117 S 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic / programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
