What are the responsibilities and job description for the Phlebotomist position at Cass Regional Medical Center?
Primary Purpose: To collect and process patient specimens and to distribute the results.
Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities: Formally responsible for providing input into policies associated with the job’s purpose and essential responsibilities.
Routine Decision Making: Determine correct patient; means of collection; appropriate device used.
Required Knowledge: Determine where to collect specimens; materials to accurately process specimens.
Required Skills and Ability: Good communication skills; phlebotomy skills. Perform tasks assigned by supervisor or technologist as needed.
Unusual Working Conditions: Risk of blood, body fluid contamination.
Education and Certification/ Registration Required for the Position: Technical or vocational school education preferred.
Age Specific Competencies: Provides care for birth to pediatric (birth-2 yrs.), pediatric/child patients between (2 yrs-12 yrs); adolescent patients between 12 to 18 years of age; adult patients between 18 to 64 years; and geriatric patients 65 years and older.
Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities: Formally responsible for providing input into policies associated with the job’s purpose and essential responsibilities.
Routine Decision Making: Determine correct patient; means of collection; appropriate device used.
Required Knowledge: Determine where to collect specimens; materials to accurately process specimens.
Required Skills and Ability: Good communication skills; phlebotomy skills. Perform tasks assigned by supervisor or technologist as needed.
Unusual Working Conditions: Risk of blood, body fluid contamination.
Education and Certification/ Registration Required for the Position: Technical or vocational school education preferred.
Age Specific Competencies: Provides care for birth to pediatric (birth-2 yrs.), pediatric/child patients between (2 yrs-12 yrs); adolescent patients between 12 to 18 years of age; adult patients between 18 to 64 years; and geriatric patients 65 years and older.