Travel Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) - $2,185 per week in Templeton, CA

Job Title: Clinical Laboratory Scientist Profession: Clinical Laboratory Scientist Specialty: Clinical Laboratory Scientist Duration: 13 weeks Shift: Variable, Rotating Start Times Hours per Shift: 8 hours Experience: Preferred clinical laboratory experience License: Valid Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license in state of employment required Certifications: Current certification from American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) or National Credentialing Agency for Labs (NCA) preferred Must-Have: Bachelors Degree in medical technology, clinical laboratory science, biological sciences, chemical sciences, or allied health technologies Description: Prioritizes and performs a wide variety of clinical laboratory tests on biological specimens. Reviews, evaluates, documents, and reports results. Preserves confidentiality of patients and follows lab safety and maintenance protocols. Trains and supervises trainees, laboratory assistants, and clerks as needed. Employs positive patient identification procedures to ensure specimen integrity for testing. Performs proper specimen collection procedures, labeling, handling, preservation, processing, and storage. Adheres to patient confidentiality guidelines and regulations. Prioritizes lab orders according to type and performs various testing following quality assurance policies. Performs, evaluates, and documents quality control checks. Reviews testing results, assessing the validity of test results. Correlates test results with diagnoses and questions incompatible results. Thoroughly documents and communicates test results, expediting critical values to the appropriate clinicians. Disposes of contaminated materials in accordance with policy and cleanses the work area after each test. Performs maintenance, troubleshooting, and calibration of equipment and instrumentation as needed. Inventories and restocks reagents, calibrators, controls, and supplies. Participates in the collection and evaluation of data for performance improvement evaluations. Documents adverse events using an incident reporting tool. Orients, instructs, and supervises laboratory assistants and clerks as needed. Performs other job-related duties as assigned.