Medical Laboratory Technician

Medical Laboratory Technician in Memphis, Tennessee, United States

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Medical Laboratory Technician Job ID 38782 Job Category: Laboratory & Pathology Work Type: PRN Work Schedule: Rotating Department: Pathology Facility: BMH Womens Hospital Location: Memphis, TN

Overview

Utilizes laboratory skills to perform and report results of clearly defined laboratory procedures, assuring optimal patient outcomes. Responsible for assigned shifts and subject to overtime and call back as required. Performs other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Receives, organizes, and prioritizes specimens to ensure accurate and timely test processing. • Performs and reports requested laboratory procedures. • Performs quality control proficiency testing and routine instrument maintenance and inventory control, and documents as required. • Evaluates positive patient identification to reduce analytical and post-analytical error and/or adverse patient outcomes. • Assesses, evaluates, and draws appropriate conclusions. • Follows regulatory requirements, competency requirements, and maintains safe laboratory practice. • Completes assigned goals.

Specifications

Experience Minimum Required: Clinical laboratory experience preferred. Preferred: Experience in a hospital or clinical laboratory setting.

Education Minimum Required: Associate degree in Medical Laboratory Technology from an accredited MLT program or successful completion of at least a 50-week official US military medical laboratory procedures training course and currently hold or have held the military enlisted occupational specialty of Medical Laboratory Specialist. Preferred: Bachelors degree in Medical Laboratory Technology or related field.

Training Minimum Required: Basic computer literacy. Preferred: Training in laboratory information systems, electronic medical records, and other relevant software.

Licensure Minimum Required: National certification in concordance with current federal and/or state regulations. Full certification must be obtained within six months of hire date. Preferred: State licensure and/or certification.

Equal Opportunity

Baptist is an equal employment opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination based on an individuals race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, sex, age, handicap, disability, physical, visual, or mental creed, marital, and veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected by federal or state law, with respect to all aspects of the employment process, including recruitment, selection, placement, promotion, wages, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment.

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