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Phlebotomist, Non Certified PT Days – AdventHealth Murray

Location Address: Murray Medical Center: 707 Old Dalton Ellijay Rd, Chatsworth, GA 30705

Top Reasons To Work At AdventHealth Murray:

Located in the foothills of North Georgia Mountains

Co-workers that feel like family

Faith based organization

Employee Referral Program

Educational Reimbursement Plans

Part time, 24 hours/week

What You Will Be Responsible For:

• Build collaborative professional relationships to create quality healthcare
• Work independently in a professional team-oriented environment.
• Possess office skills such as but not limited to answering the phone, transferring calls, faxing, printing, filing, cleaning and organizing.
• Ability to multi-task.

• Accountability to learn and implement processes that improves laboratory standards.
• Has written and oral communication skills adequate to comprehend technical material and communicate with medical professionals including but not limited to nurses, physicians, and reference laboratories.
• Ability to communicate with patients of all ages from neonatal to geriatric.  Use appropriate equipment for specimen collections.
• Ability to emotionally and physically handle high volumes of stress and workload.
• Use universal precautions and PPE deemed appropriate at all times when performing laboratory procedures.
• Ability to locate an appropriate venipuncture site and obtain blood on > 95% of patients with 1 venipuncture
• Ability to obtain blood from antecubital sites as well a finger sticks, heel sticks, and the ability to stick in the arms, hands, legs and feet as medically necessary for testing. 
• Ability to understand and collects specimens other than blood such as but not limited to cultures, urine, nasal swabs and throat swabs.
• Ability to draw > 95% of patients within 5-10 minutes.
• Ability to correctly identify a patient, collect and label specimens at the bedside or patient area according to JCAHO guidelines.
• Ability to communicate with technical staff to verify testing required by physicians. 
• Ability to understand hospital information systems (HIS) and laboratory information systems (LIS) and utilize the systems to process samples for in house testing and reference laboratory testing. 
• Ability to troubleshoot any test in question with an appropriate outcome and documentation.  
• Utilize LIS reports and maintenance function to ensure patient testing is ordered, performed and resulted within a timely manner.
• Utilize the LIS for documentation and reporting of results.
• Ability to utilize the internet and intranet to obtain information such as specimen collection requirements for samples being sent to a reference lab.
• Ability to order supplies within the set guidelines to manage inventory and supplies used within the phlebotomy department.  
• Mentor and train new employees.
• Required to learn registration, including the entering of patient demographics, insurance information and ordering of tests.
• Understand laboratory protocol and route sample efficiently to the appropriate department.