CLINICAL LABORATORY ASSOCIATE in Nashua, New Hampshire

Abstract

Important Duties and Tasks

• Helps and promotes the mission and values of Covenant Well being Ministry.

• Duties additionally embrace registering sufferers within the hospital admission and billing techniques, verifying insurance coverage protection, putting doctor orders into the order entry system, verifying info for medical coding and billing, and resolving shopper issues and inquiries.

• Associates are additionally required to realize unbiased competency to register and draw blood at a number of off-site draw stations and supply nursing house protection as wanted.

• When needed, workers might register sufferers for non-lab departments, similar to Diagnostic Imaging (to incorporate Xray, Ultrasound, Bone Density and Mammogram) and Milford Pressing Care.

• Performs minor specimen processing duties which can embrace centrifugation of specimens, separation of serum/plasma and specimen preservation.

• Interacts with sufferers, physicians, and hospital employees members in knowledgeable method.

• Periodically, associates can be required to gather and course of blood samples for authorized blood alcohol testing when requested by legislation enforcement.

• Performs clerical duties as wanted to create, preserve, and talk affected person information to well being care suppliers.

• Established affected person identification protocols are adopted persistently. Inpatients are recognized by their wristbands, with no errors. Outpatients, together with residents of assisted residing amenities, are recognized by having affected person verbally spell full identify and state date of beginning.

• Collects human scientific specimens utilizing established, permitted laboratory strategies, in a protected and environment friendly method. Strategies employed might embrace venipuncture, capillary puncture, and assortment of swabs for detection of microorganisms.

• Interprets laboratory orders from scientific supplier employees and enters orders into hospital laptop techniques.

• Scientific Acquire machine is used appropriately in each inpatient and outpatient settings.

• High quality Assurance assessment of all orders for accuracy is finished earlier than drawing the affected person’s blood to make sure checks are crossing the interface and never missed.

• All specimens are labeled and initialed in keeping with established insurance policies. Ask sufferers to confirm labeled specimens.

• Specimens accepted from sufferers or healthcare suppliers are verified for correct labeling and specimen integrity previous to permitting the person to go away.

• Understands specimen necessities and venipuncture methods relevant to all age teams. Conversant in and competent in utilizing all kinds of specimen assortment tools.

• Organizes / prioritizes take a look at requisitions to make sure well timed assortment of specimens. Obtains STAT specimens inside quarter-hour of request.

• Collects acceptable specimen kind and quantity, in keeping with established coverage, to make sure specimens are appropriate for correct testing. Analysis specimen necessities when wanted.

• Performs capillary puncture in keeping with established procedures.

• Understands and follows particular assortment protocols, similar to amassing blood cultures, timed specimens, tolerance checks, throat cultures, nasal swabs and breath checks.

• Productiveness requirements are persistently met: A mean of 6 to eight minutes for one inpatient; 5-7 minutes for every outpatient.

• Checks the gathering lists and laptop to consolidate requests and confirm affected person has/has not been not too long ago drawn. Screens wait checklist often to realize low affected person wait occasions and assist meet affected person satisfaction objectives. Makes use of routine scheduled assortment occasions to optimize affected person stream.

• Acknowledges, experiences, and seeks acceptable intervention for indicators and signs of complication or important change in affected person standing (e.g., fainting, nausea, and so on.).

• Supplies affected person schooling as wanted together with directions for pre-collection preparation, specimen assortment, and specimen labeling

• Performs fundamental affected person reception and specimen processing duties to incorporate registration, ordering of checks, take a look at add-ons, centrifuging, poring off specimens (aliquoting), and preserving specimen appropriately.

• Registers sufferers precisely within the hospital info system by acquiring and verifying all required demographic and insurance coverage info.

• Orders laboratory checks in HIS and LIS with utmost accuracy. In a position to make corrections when errors happen.

• Identifies and successfully resolves specimen assortment issues. Rejects improperly collected samples when acceptable.

• Paperwork follow-up for affected person remembers. Ensures affected person consent has been obtained, Medicare Secondary Payor questionnaires and Superior Beneficiary Notices are accomplished as needed.

• Performs phlebotomies and registration at websites distant from the primary hospital, together with clinic assortment stations, doctor places of work, nursing houses, enterprise purchasers and well being gala’s.

• Assists in coaching new phlebotomists, associates, college students, and clinic workplace employees as wanted. Acts as a useful resource in acquiring troublesome venipunctures and answering technical phlebotomy questions

• Different duties as per this position.

  Job Necessities

  Job Data and Expertise

• A minimum of 12 months expertise in phlebotomy and registration as a St. Joseph Hospital worker is desired.

• Should be self-directed, punctual and have glorious attendance, together with robust phlebotomy and registration expertise.

• Medical terminology

• Familiarity with scientific laboratory insurance policies and procedures associated to specimen assortment, dealing with and processing.

• Coming into and retrieving information from hospital and laboratory info techniques

• Glorious communication expertise, interplay with the general public and medical/nursing personnel to advertise constructive outcomes, dealing with a number of priorities, and managing stress successfully.

  Training and Expertise

• Nationwide certification (ASCP or equal) in Phlebotomy is required.

• Excessive Faculty Diploma or GED most well-liked.

• Coaching in an permitted faculty or program of phlebotomy is most well-liked, however on-the-job coaching and expertise can be evaluated by means of show of job data and expertise.

  An equal mixture of schooling and expertise which supplies proficiency within the areas of duty listed above could also be substituted for the above schooling and expertise necessities.

  Working Circumstances/Bodily Calls for

  Should p ossess the bodily and psychological talents to carry out the duties usually related to this place that entails a mix of sitting, standing, strolling, bending, stooping, and reaching. Occasional lifting/carrying as much as 25 lbs. Some stress associated to excessive degree of duty for high quality care.

  People with Disabilities Assertion

  Should be capable to carry out all important capabilities of this place with cheap lodging if disabled.

  The above statements are meant to explain the overall nature and degree of labor being carried out. They aren’t meant to be construed as an exhaustive checklist of all obligations, duties and expertise required of personnel so categorized. Covenant Well being reserves the proper to switch place duties at any time, to mirror course of enhancements and enterprise necessity.

  Normal of Enterprise Conduct

  Each St Joseph Hospital worker is required to abide by the Requirements of Conduct and to report any exercise that seems to violate the Requirements of Conduct.

Covenant Well being Mission Assertion

We’re a Catholic well being ministry, offering therapeutic and look after the entire individual, in service to all in our communities.

Our Core Values:

Compassion

We present respect, caring and sensitivity in the direction of all, honoring the dignity of every individual, particularly the poor, susceptible and struggling.

Integrity

We promote justice and moral conduct, and responsibly steward our human, monetary and environmental sources.

Collaboration

We work in partnership, dialogue and shared objective to create wholesome communities.

Excellence

We ship all providers with the best degree of high quality, whereas searching for inventive innovation.

We’re an equal alternative, affirmative motion employer and all certified candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, coloration, faith, age, incapacity standing, gender, sexual orientation, ancestry, protected veteran standing, nationwide origin, genetic info or some other legally protected standing.