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September 13, 2024
Carle Health
Urbana
FULL TIME
Phlebotomist in Training - Clinic Track - Program Starts 10/21/24
- Department: Transition to Practice_10_48
- Entity: Champaign-Urbana Service Area
- Job Category: Patient Care
- Employment Type: Full - Time
- Job ID: 45175
- Experience Required: None
- Education Required: HS Diploma/GED
- Shift: Variable
- Location: Urbana, IL
- Usual Schedule: Variable 6:45a-6p
- On Call Requirements: After Orientation
- Work Location: Carle Foundation Hospital
- Weekend Requirements: Every Other
- Holiday Requirements: None
Position Summary:
The Phlebotomist in Training Program is designed to provide a full-time, paid training opportunity to learn, through various teaching methods and on the job training, the information required to practice as a phlebotomist. The phlebotomist can work in the ambulatory or acute care setting. Duties include, performing EKG, point of care testing, and registration in the ambulatory setting and venipuncture and skin puncture in both the ambulatory and hospital settings. Demonstrates excellent communication and patient care skills. At the completion of the program, phlebotomist will transfer to a phlebotomy position in the ambulatory or acute care setting.
The Phlebotomist in Training Program is designed to provide a full-time, paid training opportunity to learn, through various teaching methods and on the job training, the information required to practice as a phlebotomist. The phlebotomist can work in the ambulatory or acute care setting. Duties include, performing EKG, point of care testing, and registration in the ambulatory setting and venipuncture and skin puncture in both the ambulatory and hospital settings. Demonstrates excellent communication and patient care skills. At the completion of the program, phlebotomist will transfer to a phlebotomy position in the ambulatory or acute care setting.
Qualifications:
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
H.S. Diploma/GED
CERTIFICATION & LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS
None specified
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
One (1) year of customer service experience
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
� Demonstrates compassion and caring in dealing with others. � Strong communication skills. � Observes high standard of confidentiality. � Ability to prioritize and complete tasks under stressful conditions with interruptions. � Ability to accept and implement change and function in instances where decisions are not always apparent. � Ability to perform tasks with minimal error. � Must possess critical thinking skills and the ability to work independently. � Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
H.S. Diploma/GED
CERTIFICATION & LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS
None specified
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
One (1) year of customer service experience
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
� Demonstrates compassion and caring in dealing with others. � Strong communication skills. � Observes high standard of confidentiality. � Ability to prioritize and complete tasks under stressful conditions with interruptions. � Ability to accept and implement change and function in instances where decisions are not always apparent. � Ability to perform tasks with minimal error. � Must possess critical thinking skills and the ability to work independently. � Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Essential Functions:
- Performs essential job functions of Lab Phlebotomy
- Performs a variety of routine and complex blood drawing procedures including but not limited to venipuncture, finger and heel sticks, and blood cultures.
- Ensure quality by verifying patient identification and specimen labeling.
- Maintains appropriate response times to stat and timed orders.
- Serves as part of the trauma and code response teams
- Participates in committee work, as needed.
- Perform inventory and audits, as directed.
- The Phlebotomy team services the patients presenting to Carle Foundation Hospital or any of its outpatient laboratories. This team serves patients from newborn to geriatric in the Emergency Department and all inpatient and outpatient areas of the hospital. The Float team collects blood specimens for diagnostic testing in the inpatient and outpatient setting. They provide patients with collection containers and instructions and performs several point of care tests and EKGs in the outpatient setting. The Phlebotomy team collects blood from approximately 400 patients each 24-hour period in the hospital and emergency department; in the outpatient laboratory setting, they may collect 50-200 patients per business day dependent on lab location.
- Patients and specimens are identified using two identifiers: Name/Date of Birth or Name/Medical Record Number.
- Patient registrations and insurance entry are performed in Epic Prelude. Orders received from non-Carle providers are transcribed into the Epic computer system after state licensure is checked for the ordering provider. Orders entered directly into the Epic system by Carle providers are reviewed with the patient prior to release into the SCC Soft Lab Information System.
- Venipunctures are performed using a vacutainer needle and hub, a hypodermic needle with syringe, or a butterfly needle system. Complex blood drawing procedures include a variety of specialized blood collection kits for commercial laboratories and/or research. Blood cultures collected at Carle require Chloroprep skin decontamination at the draw site and vary from collection of a simple tube collection for Acid Fast or Fungal cultures, a set of Bactec blood culture bottles, or involve nurse coordination for a single or multiple-lumen port collection.
- Point of Care tests performed in the outpatient laboratory include i Stat tests, Diastix urine glucose testing, and Quicktox urine drug screens. Phlebotomists must be able to recognize test result or instrument function problems and perform troubleshooting or seek additional assistance from the Supervisor or Lead as appropriate.
- Specimens are processed according to specific test needs. requireduirements may include protection from light, refrigeration, centrifugation, generation of platelet-poor plasma, freezing, room temperature or heated storage, and/or any combination listed.
Effective September 20, 2021, the COVID 19 vaccine is required for all new Carle Health team members. Requests for medical or religious exemption will be permitted.
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