Technician I
On-siteSalt Lake City, Utah, United States
Job Summary
Process, triage, route, and store specimens according to departmental procedures. Prepare, organize, and review specimens for run setup, ensuring accurate sample order and patient identification. Perform selected tests as allowed by regulatory guidelines, evaluate specimens for acceptability, and document quality control and equipment maintenance. Transcribe or transmit results previously validated by a Technologist. Answer telephone calls, provide verified test results available in the LIS, and stock and maintain supplies. Attend laboratory meetings and in-services as required. This Technician I role is part of the Hematologic Flow department at ARUP Laboratories, a national clinical reference laboratory serving over one million patients monthly.
Required Qualifications
- Some college level courses in biology or related life sciences
- Understands appropriate specimen collection, handling, and transport per departmental procedures
- Processes, triages, routes, and stores specimens according to established departmental procedures
- Evaluates specimens for acceptability and follows the appropriate procedures for specimens that do not meet acceptance criteria
- Prepares, organizes, and reviews specimens for run set up according to departmental procedures
- Ensures accurate sample order and patient identification
- Prepares reagents according to laboratory requirements as allowed by regulatory guidelines
- Performs selected tests as allowed by regulatory guidelines
- Performs and documents quality control
- Assists with equipment maintenance within predetermined parameters
- Does not calibrate instrumentation
- Transcribes or transmits results previously validated by a Technologist
- Answers telephone calls in a timely and courteous manner
- Is proficient in the use of laboratory computer applications/programs
- Documents cleaning and maintenance of work area and equipment as required
- Stocks and maintains supplies
- Attends laboratory meetings and in-services as required
- Remains informed of all relevant process and procedure changes
- Is productive in all areas for which competency has been achieved
- Absolute integrity in the accurate identification of samples, test performance, and reporting of results
- Having close, far, and peripheral visual acuity
- Perception of and ability to distinguish colors
- Use of personal protective equipment in accordance with CDC and OSHA regulations and company/departmental policies
- Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects
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