Wage: $17.33/hr. + DOE

POSITION SUMMARY: Serves patients by preparing specimens for laboratory testing and performs screening procedures.

DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITES:

· Verifies test requisitions by comparing information with nursing station log, bringing discrepancies to the attention of clinic personnel.

· Verifies patient by reading patient identification.

· Obtains blood specimens by performing venipunctures and finger sticks.

· Maintains specimen integrity by using aseptic technique, following Siskiyou Community Health Center (SCHC) procedures and observance of isolation procedures.

· Tracks collected specimens by initialing, dating, and noting times of collection, maintaining daily tallies of collections performed.

· 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 and compliance with legal regulations.

· Participates in educational opportunities by reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations.

· Serves and protects SCHC by adhering to professional standards, clinic policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and Joint Commission standards.

· Obtain patient identifying information and accurately enter billing and laboratory test information.

· Processing specimens including labeling, centrifuging, freezing, storing, and preparing for transport as required by test order.

· Perform all non-patient facing duties including inventory, stocking supplies, ordering, sanitizing, filing, scanning, answering phones, and utilizing email.

· Read, understand, and comply with departmental policies, procedures, and protocols.

· Maintain all appropriate phlebotomy and quality control logs in a timely manner and based on frequency, such as maintenance logs and temperature logs.

· Perform quality control on laboratory equipment located throughout the clinics.

· All other duties as assigned.