About this opportunity
Wellstar Health System lists this Medical Technologist/Medical Lab Scientist- (Columbia County) FT Night opportunity in grovetown, Georgia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Work Shift
Night (United States of America)
About The Facility
Learn more about Columbia County Medical Center , including our teams, culture, and campus environment:
Join Wellstar Health System at Columbia County Medical Center
Hours: FT Night, 40 Hours per week
Sign on Bonus Eligible***
Under the general supervision of the Supervisors, Manager or Director; performs clinical laboratory testing pursuant to established and approved protocols requiring the exercise of independent judgment and responsibility, maintains equipment and records, performs quality assurance activities related to test performance and may supervise and teach within the laboratory setting.
Accuracy: Maintains acceptable accuracy in-patient, quality assurance, proficiency, and competency testing.
Critical Thinking: Uses clinical/ theoretical knowledge to analyze, investigate, interpret, and report lab data.
Job Knowledge: Maintains current personal training, education and practice of policies and procedures.
Productivity: Practices organizational skills for efficiency of time, materials, cost, and availability of lab data
Communication: Practices information monitoring, investigation, resolution, and hand-off to team members.
Performs other duties as assigned
Core Responsibilities And Essential Functions
Maintains acceptable accuracy in patient, quality assurance, proficiency, and competency testing.
a. Meets department standard for correct patient or specimen identification.
b. Meets department standard for error rate in testing or reporting patient or QC results.
c. Consistently documents investigation and correct interpretation of QA failures or trends.
d. Earns acceptable scores in proficiency testing and personnel competency testing.
e. Maintains instrumentation for testing.
Uses clinical/ theoretical knowledge to analyze, investigate, interpret, and report lab data.
a. Reports lab data accurately and within established turnaround times and productivity standards.
b. Recognizes the relationship between lab data and clinical findings or expectations.
d. Interprets information from multiple sources
Practices information monitoring, investigation, resolution, and hand-off to team members.
a. Complies with Pending Log procedure for tracking laboratory test status.
b. Documents in the LIS all elements of the Notification Value Call procedure.
c. Hands-off information to others according to the department procedure and chain of command.
d. Adheres to WellStars Standards of Behavior in a consistent fashion.
e. Takes personal responsibility for corrective action on constructive criticism
Contributes to the Laboratorys Performance Improvements and inspection readiness.
a. Assists in analysis of new methods for testing including correlations and procedure writing.
b. Assists in inspection preparation.
c. Participates in the Laboratory Performance Improvement initiatives.
d. Practices cost-efficient work processes that maintain high quality laboratory data.
Maintains current personal training, education and practice of policies and procedures.
a. Maintains current knowledge and practice of WellStar policies and procedures, including LIS.
b. Demonstrates adequate knowledge of laboratory regulatory compliance.
c. Practices all Wellstar and Laboratory Safety Standards.
d. Participates in meetings, committees, task forces and project teams.
e. Completes monthly, quarterly, or yearly educational requirements.
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.
Required Minimum Education
Bachelors Medical Technology or Bachelors Medical Science
Masters Degree Preferred
Required Minimum License(s) And Certification(s)
All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.
MT(ASCP) - Medical Technologist or MT(AMT) - Medical Technologist or MT(AAB) - Medical Technologist or MT(HEW) - Medical Technologist or MLS(ASCP) - Medical Laboratory Scientist or MLS(AMT) - Medical Laboratory Scientist or MB(ASCP) - Molecular Biologist - American Society for Clinical Pathology or H(ASCP) - Hematology - American Society for Clinical Pathology
Required Minimum Experience
Minimum 1 year Laboratory experience Preferred
Required Minimum Skills
Computer/data entry experience.
Ability to communicate with various members of the healthcare team.
Ability to use EXCEL, Word and have basic computer operational knowledge.
Epic And 3M Experience Preferred.
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Worksite address
grovetown, GA, 30813, US
Who can apply
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