Experience
- Minimum 1 year experience required
- Previous experience in Blood Bank required
- Previous experience as a generalist required
License & Certification Required
- ASCP
- ASCP-MLS
- ASCP-MLT
- MLS or MLT
Skills Required
- ABO/Rh/Antibody Screen & ID
- Accessioning
- Analyzer operation
- Arterial Blood Gas
- Automated Instrument Use
- Blood banking procedures
- Blood specimen storage
- Body fluids analysis
- Cardiac Enzymes testing
- CBC Manual
- Cord Blood Evaluation
- Crossmatch-Immediate Spin/IgG
- Crystal identification
- Culture plating
- Direct Coombs (DAT)
- Electronic Crossmatch
- Fibrinogen testing
- Gram Stain
- Hazardous materials and MSDS knowledge
- Hospital clinical laboratory experience
- Malarial Examination
- Manual Differential
- Manual macroscopic UA
- Microscopic UA
- Occult Blood testing
- Patient identification process
- PCR Testing (flu; group B; MRSA Screen; staph aureus; covid)
- Pipetting
- Platelet Count
- Pregnancy test (urine or blood)
- Proper labeling
- Quality assurance and controls
- Rapid test kits (RSV, strep; H-flu; C-diff)
- Reticulocyte Count
- Review & Interpretation of QC
- Specimen Collection
- Specimen Preparation
- Thawing/Cooling of Blood Products
- Transfusion Reaction Workup
- Venipuncture
Desired Skills
- Phlebotomy experience is a plus
