Department:
Status:
Benefits Eligible:
Hours Per Week:
Schedule Details/Additional Information:
M-F 8-5
Pay Range
$18.85 - $28.30Position Highlights:
Shift Schedule: M-F 8:00am - 5:00pm
Department: Laboratory
Location: Winston Salem campus
Major Responsibilities:
Verifies positive patient identification to ensure patient safety. Assesses patient reactions to specimen procurement.
Performs Venipuncture and collects other specimens from newborn pediatric and adult patients according to established protocol. Obtains medical assistance when judged necessary.
Obtains specimens according to priority and scheduled draw times. Ensures completion of specimen collection functions according to protocol.
Ensures that specimens are properly labeled and suitable for testing. Resolves specimen identification and/or requisition problems and clarifies requests.
Answers and screens telephone calls. Assists with inventory and maintains supplies and/or equipment.
Accepts specimens from a variety of internal and external customers. Receives and sorts specimens. Responds to additional specimen procurement requests via pager or other means.
Orders and verifies test requests. Documents appropriate information for quality assurance/improvement according to established protocol.
Reviews various pending and management reports. Generates and distributes reports.
Provides assistance in support of Billing and other business functions.
Instructs employees and students in phlebotomy and data entry.
Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patients status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patients requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs and to provide the care needed as described in the departments policies and procedures. Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.
Education/Experience:
High School diploma required.
No experience required.
Licensure Registration and/or Certification:
None Required.
This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.
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Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit integrated health system in the United States created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation health outcomes consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte North Carolina Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology neurosciences oncology pediatrics and rehabilitation as well as organ transplants burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1000 care locations and offers one of the nations largest graduate medical education programs with over 2000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.
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