Lab Technician - Blood Transfusion Services - Full Time Nights 8-HRS

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Night 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview
Under the direction of the section supervisor or senior technical support prepares processes and loads specimens onto testing platforms as required; assists in instrument maintenance; processes specimens for confirmatory testing; archiving samples after analysis; labeling and staining as required responding to inquiries from Preanalytical Services and Technical Sections; recording equipment temperature readings; performing a variety of clerical duties and participating in preclinical test development training and adhoc projects as directed.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Accessions patient information into Laboratory information system(s). Checks all requests for proper and accurate patient information. Consults with Supervisor or Technologist if request is problematic. Notifies physician nursing unit clinic etc. if sample received is inappropriate or compromised.
• According to procedure prepares specimens in preparation for testing and quality control as directed. Adheres to all Safety/Health regulatory and state/federal legal requirements and policies operating procedures and Services Standard of the Hospitals.
• Assists in routine and regularly scheduled preventive maintenance for all automated and semiautomated instruments according to established procedures.
• Determines suitability of specimens for analysis and if necessary performs preanalytical processing of the specimens following established guidelines.
• Inventories and orders supplies. Verifies delivery order and restocks and/or distributes supplies to the appropriate areas of the lab.
• Maintains the logs and records for all Laboratory transactions and information in accordance with department and regulatory requirements.
• Monitors and records temperatures of incubators heating blocks water baths freezers and refrigeration units; ensures readings are within specified range; notifies supervisor of any exceptions to range limits. Organizes catalogs and stores patient specimen samples.
• Participates in preclinical test development according to established protocols.
• Performs a variety of clerical functions such as word processing entering information into the database handling calls and inquires and other support functions as assigned.
• Processes specimens which have been analyzed for outside reference laboratories for additional testing. Receives and processes all specimens/samples following the proper laboratory procedures. Ensures patient samples are distributed to the appropriate areas of the laboratory or routed to other hospital departments as required.

Education Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent

Experience Qualifications

• Two 2 years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Ability to follow procedures and learn clinical support technology
• Ability to foster effective working relationships with others
• Ability to perform standard business math (ratios percents)
• Ability to plan organize multitask and adapt to priority changes
• Ability to speak read write and understand English effectively at a level appropriate for the job
• Ability to use standard computers and basic office software
• Knowledge of Business English spelling grammar and punctuation
• Knowledge of Windowsbased operating systems and applications
• Skill in aliquoting
• Skill in calculating dilutions for reagents
• Skill in pipetting
• Skill in weighing reagents

Licenses and Certifications

• None

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute CICARE standards for all of patients families and towards each other. CICARE is the foundation of Stanfords patientexperience and represents a framework for patientcentered interactions. Simply put we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars from the patient and familys perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and nondiscrimination inall ofits policies and practices including the area of employment. Accordingly SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race color sex sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression religion age national or ethnic origin political beliefs marital status medical condition genetic information veteran status or disability or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders members of all racial and ethnic groups people with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $41.27 $46.28 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity experience education specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.