Medical Technologist - Full-time Night Shift - 7on/7 off
Yoakum Community Hospital
Yoakum, texas
Shift: 6:30 pm to 6:30 am
Performs medical laboratory tests, procedures, and analyses to provide data for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Must be able to demonstrate competency in all procedures within scope of practice, as appropriate to the ages of the patients served; must be able to obtain and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs; must demonstrate a knowledge of growth and development and an understanding of the range of treatments needed by these patients to include infants, pediatrics, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics.
Verifies or records identity of patient and converses with patient to allay fear of procedure.
Performs routine venipunctures while observing principles of asepsis to obtain blood specimens.
Collects and labels specimens within one hour of request and labels blood specimens as soon as specimen is collected.
Using manual procedures and/or automated analyzers conducts quantitative...