Company Description

Retail Pharmacy inside of a behavioral health facility

Job Description

• Verifies test requisitions by comparing information with nursing station log; bringing discrepancies to the attention of unit personnel.

• Verifies patient by reading patient identification.

• Obtains blood specimens by performing venipunctures and fingersticks.

• Maintains specimen integrity by using aseptic technique, following department procedures; observing isolation procedures.

• Collects therapeutic drug-monitoring assays by collaborating with nursing personnel to ensure appropriate drug dose to collection time.

• Tracks collected specimens by initialling, dating, and noting times of collection; maintaining daily tallies of collections performed.

• Monitors glucose levels by performing bedside glucose tests; recording results; reporting results to unit nurse-manager.

• Performs bleeding-times tests by entering results to the computer; notifying pathologist of results falling outside normal ranges.

• Maintains quality results by following department procedures and testing schedule; recording results in the quality-control log; identifying and reporting needed changes.

• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by following standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations.

• Resolves unusual test orders by contacting the physician, pathologist, nursing station, or reference laboratory; referring unresolved orders back to the originator for further clarification; notifying supervisor of unresolved orders.

• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

• Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and jcaho standards.

• Enhances phlebotomy department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments

Qualifications

Six to twelve months of phlebotomy experience

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.