Phlebotomist Job at Kodiak Area Native Association in Kodiak

Description

Identify patients and match those patients with test requests, performing sample collection and providing a high-quality patient experience and specimens to the laboratory; Accept specimens from other departments and villages and transmit samples and receive results from various reference laboratories. Provide phlebotomy and laboratory services within the clinic setting to ensure appropriate patient care and follow-up; and provide support to Care Teams and Clinical Providers to ensure seamless coordination of patient care.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Support the organization's mission and goals, quality standards, and patient-centered medical home philosophy. Embrace KANA's culture of serving the whole person through our provision of services. Incorporate KANA's core values of Courtesy, Caring, Respect, Sharing, and Pride in all activities and decisions.
• Uphold KANA's Code of Ethics by conducting professional activities with honesty, integrity, respect, fairness, and good faith in a manner that reflects positively upon the organization.
• Ensure absolute patient identification and match with required test; perform specimen collection, ensuring high customer service and strict attention to accuracy, integrity, and quality
• Obtain laboratory specimens (blood, urine, etc.) using OSHA and CLIA approved methods, process specimens, including the completion of all appropriate documentation with third party billing information (Medicaid/Medicare) for transport.
• Maintains specimen integrity by using aseptic technique, following department procedures, and observing isolation procedures.
• Collects therapeutic drug-monitoring and/or timed assays by collaborating with nursing or clinical personnel to ensure appropriate drug dose or correct diurnal collection time.
• Tracks collected specimens by initialing, dating, and noting times of collection and completing appropriate documentation in the clinical records of collections performed.
• Monitor glucose levels or PT(INR) by performing point of care tests, recording results, and reporting results to the appropriate clinical personnel.
• Perform laboratory testing based on completion of initial, 6 month, and annual competency training and assessments.
• Maintain the laboratory area in an organized clean manner acceptable to OSHA and CLIA standards.
• Monitor laboratory equipment (centrifuge, etc.) in conjunction with Bio-Med recommendations.
• Monitor and maintain laboratory supplies in conjunction with Operations and Laboratory administrative support staff.
• Ensure appropriate cleaning of laboratory spaces and equipment.
• Maintains quality results by following department procedures and testing schedule, recording results in the quality-control log or electronic record, and identifying and reporting needed changes.
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by following standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations.
• Resolves unusual test orders by contacting the physician, laboratory director, case manager, or reference laboratory, referring unresolved orders back to the originator for further clarification, and notifying appropriate parties of unresolved orders.
• Collect and appropriately distribute state lab reports, ensures reportable results are logged, documentation completed, and state is notified.
• Provide patient with education material relevant to their visit, sample collection instructions, or kits. Provide a review and answer any patient questions within scope.
• Provide administrative support with lab result notifications which may include processing of Release of Information (ROI) documents.
• Package lab and biological specimens to DOT and IATA specifications.
• Participate in the transport and delivery of specimens between clinics, transfer of supply packages, delivery of reference lab boxes, village specimen retrieval from airport, and other support as needed when the Health Courier is unavailable.
• Travel between KANA Facilities, Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center, Kodiak Airport, and Island Air as needed.
• Participate in and/or attend staff functions, quality meetings, and other committees as assigned.
• Ensure compliance with all health care regulations, including CLIA, HIPAA, OSHA and quality measures according to AAAHC accreditation and HRSA clinical measures.
• Maintains Basic Life Support (BLS) certification and participates in annual de-escalation training.
• Certified & Uncertified Phlebotomists may be required to provide oversight, training, and side-by-side back up support as needed. Situations may include other laboratory staff or clinical individuals currently in training, undergoing annual, or biannual competency assessments.

Supervisory Responsibilities This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

Uncertified Phlebotomist: High school diploma or GED. Completion of an approved phlebotomy course, on-the-job training, or online training with 6 months of laboratory experience required; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Certified Phlebotomist: Current and active certification as a Phlebotomist by one of the following accreditations for Phlebotomy Technician:

• PBT(ASCP) - American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
• (NCPT) - National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT)
• (RPT) - American Medical Technologists (AMT)