Job Details
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IL-SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon
**Worker Type:**
Regular
**Job Highlights:**
This is a full-day variable-shift with rotating weekends and holidays. Previous phlebotomy experience is preferred but not required. Must be comfortable entering patient rooms and working with patient in both an inpatient and outpatient/ emergency settings. Good attendance is punctuality an expectation. Lots of room for advancement.
**Job Summary:**
Under direct supervision, this position performs routine laboratory tasks according to procedures. May perform phlebotomy and/or waived testing. May also perform a variety of general clerical duties to support the laboratory department, including receptionist and secretarial support, admission activities, and order entry processing.
**Job Responsibilities and Requirements:**
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
+ Assists customers including answering phones and responding to customer inquiries.
+ Assists laboratory staff in the daily operation of the lab by collecting, labeling, processing and preserving blood, urine and other specimens according to established laboratory procedures.
+ Enters, accesses and executes lab orders in the appropriate laboratory and electronic medical record system.
+ Cleans and maintains laboratory supplies and work area.
+ May update statistical records, labels tubes, and schedules processing runs.
+ May perform phlebotomy and/or waived testing.
+ Identifies patients using two identifiers.
+ Performs a variety of administrative and clerical duties including admission activities, insurance verification, order entry processing and medical record processing.
+ Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
+ Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
+ High School diploma or equivalent or equivalent years of experience and education
EXPERIENCE
+ No experience required
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
+ Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
+ Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
+ Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
+ Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
+ Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
+ Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
+ Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
+ Rare climbing.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
+ None
**Department:**
342####### Outpatient Lab
**Work Shift:**
Day Shift (United States of America)
**Scheduled Weekly Hours:**
40
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