Medical Lab Technician
Lebanon, NH - USA
Job Summary
Skills: Skills marked with * are preferred
- Work Settings
- Commercial or Reference Laboratories*
- Hospital clinical laboratory
- Chemistry
- Therapeutic Drug Monitoring*
- Thyroid testing*
- 24 hour urine
- Acetone Analysis
- Arterial Blood Gas
- Cardiac Enzymes
- Immunoassay
- Review & Interpretation of QC
Professional Knowledge and Skills
- Venipuncture*
- Blood specimen storage
- Hazardous materials and MSDS
- Proper disposal
- Proper labeling
- Quality assurance and controls
- Transmission based precautions
- Blood Bank
- ABO/Rh/Antibody Screen & ID
- AHG Crossmatch
- Blood banking procedures
- Cold Agglutinins
- Cord Blood Evaluation
- Crossmatch-Immediate Spin/IgG
- Direct Coombs (DAT)
- Indirect Coombs Test
- Patient identification process
- Transfusion Reaction Workup
- Equipment
- Beckman
- Iris Cell
- Roche Cobas
- Sysmex XM
- Hematology/Coagulation
- Automated Instrument Use
- CBC Manual
- Manual Differential
- Fibrinogen
- Malarial Examination
- Occult Blood
- Platelet Count
- Reticulocyte Count
- Immunology/Serology
- Body fluids
- Rapid test kits general use; knowledge of controls
- Microbiology
- Aerobic culture
- Anaerobic culture
- Culture plating
- Cytospin
- Gram Stain
- Organism identification; Aerobic Anaerobic
- PCR Testing (flu; group B; MRSA Screen; staph aureus; covid)
- Quick identification test (strep serological; indole; coagulase; catalase; oxidase)
- Plate Set Up
- Rapid test kits (RSV strep; H-flu; C-diff)
- Wet prep (WBC; Yeast; Trichomonas)
- Specimen Processing/Handling
- Accessioning
- Pipetting
- Specimen Collection
- Specimen Receipt
- Reporting test results
- Urinalysis
- Analyzer
- Manual macroscopic UA
- Microscopic UA
- Semen analysis
Additional Skills: Meditech LIS
Holiday Requirement: Will need to work at least one holiday
Years of experience REQ: 5 years experience
First-timers accepted: No - Need experienced traveler and lab experience
Certs Preferred: ASCP