Experience
- Minimum 2 years clinical laboratory experience required
- Community Hospital experience required
- Preferred experience in Trauma Level II setting
- Recent Blood Bank experience required
- Float experience required, including coverage of Observation Unit
License & Certification Required
- California Lab Scientist license
- ASCP-MLS certification
Skills Required
- 24 hour urine analysis
- ABO/Rh/Antibody Screen & ID
- Accessioning
- Acetone Analysis
- Aerobic culture
- AFB culture
- AHG Crossmatch
- ANA (antinuclear antibody)
- Anaerobic culture
- Antibody Typing: Tube Method
- Antigen Typing
- Arterial Blood Gas
- ASO titer (Antistrepolysin O)
- Atomic absorption
- Automated Instrument Use
- B-12 Folates
- Bleeding time
- Blood banking procedures
- Body fluids analysis
- CBC Manual
- Chlamydia culture/smear
- Cord Blood Evaluation
- Crystal identification
- Culture plating
- Direct Coombs (DAT)
- Donor Collection Procedures
- Electronic Crossmatch
- Factor Assays
- Fibrin split products/FDP
- Fibrinogen
- Gram Stain
- Hazardous materials and MSDS knowledge
- Hormone/Thyroid testing
- Hospital clinical laboratory procedures
- Immunoassay techniques
- Indirect Coombs Test
- Management/lead experience
- Manual macroscopic UA
- Microscopic UA
- Mycobacteria culture
- Occult Blood testing
- Organism identification; Aerobic Anaerobic
- Patient identification process
- PCR Testing (flu; group B; MRSA Screen; staph aureus; covid)
- Pipetting
- Plate Set Up
- Platelet aggregation
- Platelet Count
- Pregnancy test (urine or blood)
- Quality assurance and controls
- Quick identification test (strep serological; indole; coagulase; catalase; oxidase)
- Rapid test kits (RSV, strep; H-flu; C-diff)
- Reporting test results
- Reticulocyte Count
- Review & Interpretation of QC
- Rhogam Screening
- RPR (rapid plasma reagin)
- Sed Rate Manual
- Sensitivities
- Sickle cell prep
- Specimen Collection
- Specimen Preparation
- Specimen Receipt
- Specimen Transport
- Stool Analysis
- Thawing/Cooling of Blood Products
- Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
- Thyroid testing
- Transfusion Reaction Workup
- Transmission based precautions
- Tumor Markers
- Wet prep (WBC; Yeast; Trichomonas)
Desired Skills
- Experience with Sysmex XM equipment
- Experience in fast-paced environments
- Knowledge of oncology clinic laboratory procedures
