Experience
- Minimum 2 years clinical laboratory experience required
- Previous travel experience required
- Recent Blood Bank experience required
- Trauma Level I experience required
- Experience in a large hospital (300+ beds) required
- Experience working independently in a lab setting required
License & Certification Required
- ASCP-BB certification required
- California state license required
Desired Skills
- Experience with Wellsky and Immucor instrumentation preferred
- Experience with Blood Bank software preferred
Skills Required
- ABO/Rh/Antibody screen & ID
- Accessioning
- AHG Crossmatch
- Antibody Typing: Tube Method
- Antigen Typing
- Blood banking procedures
- Blood specimen storage
- Cold Agglutinins
- Cord Blood Evaluation
- Crossmatch-Immediate Spin/IgG
- Direct Coombs (DAT)
- Electronic Crossmatch
- Fetal hemoglobin
- Indirect Coombs Test
- Patient identification process
- Pipetting
- Proper disposal
- Proper labeling
- Quality assurance and controls
- Reporting test results
- Rhogam Screening
- Specimen Collection
- Specimen Receipt
- Specimen Transport
- Thawing/Cooling of Blood Products
- Transfusion Reaction Workup
- Transmission based precautions
- Transplant and blood donor centers
- Immucor Automation / Blood Bank Software
- Component modification
