Health Technician

Job Title

Health Technician

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Identifies patients utilizing the full name and social security number before collecting, processing and /or hospital computer entry of requests.
• Compares orders from multiple physicians and requests the medical technologist to combine the orders.
• Identifies, labels and collection blood bank specimens for STAT and routine testing while next to the patient bedside or chair side.
• Performs phlebotomy using specialized techniques for cleansing the blood collection site to prevent bacterial contamination that's critical to patient care, to ensure the contamination rate of blood cultures remains within guidelines with blood culture contamination.
• Draws blood tests ordered by providers for inpatients, outpatients, CBOC patients and for requested drug screens.
• Selects proper vacutainer tubes for testing using various sized needles, and/or butterfly collection devices to collect appropriate specimens.
• Establishes proper identity of all patients, ensures accountability of specimens by proper and complete labeling with patient's name and identification and initials all tubes drawn.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Health Technician/ PD08432A

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized