Perspective
Healthcare
ClinicalLaboratoryScientist
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“Clinical Laboratory Scientist at Perspective. Ensure specimens are acceptable for testing. Prepare and change reagents and controls”
What You'll Achieve.
Cracking medical mysteries; Shedding light on health problems; Shedding light on diseases; Reporting test results within established departmental turn-around times; Maintaining aseptic technique; Ensuring adequate inventory levels
Industry & Context.
Troubleshoot basic instrument malfunctions; Investigate discrepancies; Evaluate serological reactivity; Assist with antibody identification; Assist with crossmatch incompatibilities
Work shift: Nights
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Clinical Lab Generalist licensed by Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners as CLG or CLS
What You'll Do.
Ensure specimens are acceptable for testing
Prepare and change reagents and controls
and distribute specimens
Maintain integrity of patient identification
Inoculate specimens on appropriate media
Initiate orders for blood components
Follow safety and infection control policies
Report variances to supervisors
Determine appropriateness of manual methods
Initiate back-up procedures
Use computer system to compare results
Investigate discrepancies in results
Report test results within turn-around times
Prepare and interpret gram stains
Perform routine procedures
Prepare blood components
Maintain aseptic technique
Properly store blood components
Evaluate serological reactivity
Assist with antibody identification
Assist with crossmatch incompatibilities
Follow universal precautions
Disinfect counter tops
Operate clinical laboratory instruments
Calibrate clinical laboratory instruments
Conduct performance checks on instruments
Maintain clinical laboratory instruments
Troubleshoot instrument malfunctions
Document instrument actions
Determine when to contact service representative
Analyze quality control material
Record quality control values
Report out-of-limits results
Perform comparison studies
Record proficiency surveys
Route forms and reagents
Assist in clinical orientation of new personnel
Assure proper packaging of waste chemicals
Assure proper disposal of waste chemicals
Maintain documentation of generated waste
Review information for accuracy
Document critical call value notification
Document duplicate checking
Document date and time of performance
Document technologist initials
Document expected age related values
Check reagent and supply levels
Check inventory levels
Replenish reagents and supplies
Notify appropriate person of low inventory
Notify of out-of-date reagents
Notify of contaminated reagents
Notify of unacceptable reagents
Record receipt of supplies and reagents
Initial and date inventory items
Ensure adequate inventory levels for incoming shifts
Receive tissue specimens
Perform processing of tissue specimens
Perform preservation of tissue specimens
Comply with specimen storage
Comply with specimen preservation
Prepare reagents for bone marrow aspirations
Prepare collection supplies for bone marrow aspirations
Assist physicians in procurement of bone marrow specimens
Perform special stains
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with section supervisors; Assist in clinical orientation of new personnel
Full Job Description
Your job is more than a job. As a Clinical Laboratory Scientist, you have the uncanny ability to look for that needle in the haystack that may lead to cracking medical mysteries. You’re not looking to be in the limelight, but rather to shed some light on health problems and diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and genetic abnormalities. Blood samples or body fluid specimens can hold the answers to research or recovery, so you take a detailed approach to performing clinical laboratory testing, evaluating and reporting data. And while you may never actually meet your patients personally, you still feel a connection to a real person that may benefit from your love of science and research. There’s nobody like you and that’s why we’d love to have you be a part of our crack team of scientific sleuths. Your experiences, your knowledge, your skills, your empathy, your compassion, your personality, all of it adds up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this vital scientific research role. **Your Everyday** Ensure specimens received by the laboratory are acceptable for testing by applying the appropriate criteria and change or prepare reagents, controls as necessary and records such in log. Label, accession and distribute specimens so that integrity of patient identification is maintained throughout processing and inoculate specimens from all areas of the body on appropriate media. Initiate orders for blood and/or blood components from the appropriate blood supplier. Follow hospital/laboratory safety and infection control policies and report variances to section supervisors as they occur. Determine appropriateness of manual methods, micro-methods, back-up procedures and initiate such procedures. Use computer system to compare patient results to previous results during the same encounter and investigate discrepancies and report test results within established departmental turn-around times after verifying documentation is complete and ac
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