Job Title: Medical Laboratory Technician
Facility: North Memorial Health Clinic - Blaine
Address: 4181 108th Ave, Blaine, MN 55449
Contract: Permanent
Shift: Day - 8 hours
Hourly Range: $23.66 - $33.00 (Based on years of experience in actual role title)
As a Laboratory Technician, you will be responsible for the collection and processing of customer specimens and the performance and evaluation of a range of clinical laboratory tests to assist in the diagnosis and monitoring of customer treatment. Customers may include infants, children, adolescents, adults and geriatrics.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collects and processes specimens using universal precautions, safety protocols, and established procedures.
- Assesses and reacts effectively to unique customer needs.
- Troubleshoots specimen/test order issues, documents problems, and applies corrective action.
- Performs computer data entry and receipt of specimens.
- Prepares and packages samples for reference lab.
- Stocks, rotates, and requests supplies as needed.
- Performs waived/moderate lab tests per policy for diagnosis, treatment, and quality checks.
- Identifies and documents test errors with corrective actions.
- Analyzes results considering patient-specific factors.
- Validates, documents, and reports results per procedures.
- Performs and documents instrument maintenance.
- Conducts quality control and verifies results.
- Troubleshoots instrument issues and contacts service as needed.
- Maintains competency through annual testing and assessments.
- Maintains lab orderliness and cleanliness.
- Accepts additional duties supporting organizational goals.
- Follows North Memorial's Code of Conduct.
- Respects privacy and accesses information only as required.
- Reports concerns via proper channels.