Laboratory Assistant II

Job description

Job Details The ChristianaCare Laboratory located on our Cecil campus in Elkton, MD, is currently recruiting for a Casual Laboratory Assistant. The works hours are 6:00am - 2:30pm every other weekend. Responsibilities: Receives and sort laboratory specimens and request slips. Verifies match of request slip and specimen. Utilizes patient demographics, medical record number, financial number, provider, and encounter for accurate identification. Utilizes proper alternate guarantor screens for pediatric and geriatric patients. Orders correct blood tests for future rounds on the correct patient for the correct time. Follows all established LIS downtime procedures. Picks up and delivers lab specimens as needed. Maintains equipment and supplies. Answers telephone calls from providers, nurses and laboratory personnel. When required, gives test results in an efficient, knowledgeable, and courteous manner. Prints identification label and affixes to proper specimen container. Demonstrates skills and knowledge necessary to provide care appropriate to neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients, including knowledge of growth and development, the ability to obtain and interpre...