R remote typeNot Applicable locationsSan Juan Regional Medical Center time typeFull time posted onPosted Yesterday job requisition idR Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider-we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community. With team accountability at the forefront of your work ethic and knowing the sacred trust placed upon us by those we are serving, the Medical Laboratory Technologist is the laboratory's front-line personnel in the performance, with accuracy and skill, the analytical testing of patient samples. In the performance of analytical testing the Tech must have knowledge and competency with the following: Test requests (i.e. requirements for filling out test request forms, authorization to accept verbal orders, etc.), Specimen collection, Specimen types/stability, Specimen Transport, and Specimen Receipt/Processing.
Required Behaviors:
- As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of an Associate Degree in Medical Technology or Laboratory Science (Chemical or Biological) or
- Have a minimum number of education requirements and training required to meet CFR 493.1489
Preferred Qualifications:
- Approved Medical Technology Internship with eligibility to sit for National Certification
- Approved National Certification from ASCP or equivalent
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Working knowledge of Quality Control and policies of Quality Assurance
- Laboratory information system experience
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for and follow laboratory procedures on specimen handling/processing, test performance, and reporting test results
- Performs only those tests that they have been trained to perform and are authorized to do so
- Perform proficiency testing the same manner as patient specimens
- Adhere to all laboratory quality control policies by documenting QC accordingly including corrective action if indicated
- Identify problems that may adversely affect test performance or results and either take action or immediately notify the supervisor
- Document all corrective actions when deviating from Laboratory protocol
- The staff technologist will demonstrate teamwork with all members of the laboratory team as well as other hospital employees and physicians in the accurate and timely performance of analytical testing of patient samples
- Maintain and troubleshoot instruments as required for optimal test performance
- Check for outstanding reports throughout shift
- Authorized to accept and document verbal phone orders
- Knowledge of computer downtime procedures
- Has knowledge of storage requirements for specimen integrity
- Responsible for communicating inventory needs to the Technical Supervisor, or person designated to maintain inventory
- Read all department policies or procedures as required
- Maintain safety guidelines in the performance of your job duties
- Accept callback, weekend and holiday assignments as needed
- Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC's Service Standards into their daily work:
Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
- Other duties as assigned
- Employees are held accountable for all duties of this job
Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:
- Works closely with other Technical Supervisors, Laboratory Assistant Manager, Pathologist(s), Physicians and staff
- Subject to inherent dangers of work that relate to the handling of biologic specimens in the laboratory
- Environment conditions may include, but not be limited to, variations in temperature, noise, odors, etc.
- Functional physical demands include manual dexterity, fine motor skills and reaching
- The following senses will be needed for essential duties of the job: speech, vision, hearing, smell, and touch.
San Juan Regional Medical Center is a community owned and operated hospital located in the beautiful San Juan River Valley in northwest New Mexico. A non-profit hospital serving the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah, we have a rich heritage dating back to before New Mexico was a state. In 1910, two physicians, Dr. G.W. Sammons and Dr. A.M. Smith, saw a community need for quality healthcare close to home. They started an eight-bed hospital so patients would not have to travel the treacherous 50 miles to Durango, Colorado. Today, the focus on serving the community with quality healthcare services remains, although our hospital has grown into a 198 bed, level III trauma center including state-of-the-art operating suites and 165 private patient rooms with fresh air balconies. As a 340B hospital , SJRMC is committed to good stewardship principles to enhance services and care for our patients.
New Mexico has been named number 3 in the nation for best places to work as a nurse by WalletHub. As a community owned and operated hospital, we are proud to provide excellent care to our community. Here in the Four Corners, life matters. Family matters. Community matters. Better matters. YOU matter.
San Juan Regional Medical Center, a large nonprofit hospital, has a rich history and reputation of excellence. We are committed to providing the best healthcare in the community that we serve. It is because of our employees that we get the opportunity to provide the best care within the Four Corners. From nursing, support staff, to administration, we strive to provide our employees with a safe and healthy work environment that cultivates independence, teamwork, initiative and opportunities for growth through personal and professional support, training and development. Our compassionate employees come with a servant's heart, like the many previous generations of San Juan Regional Medical Center. This is why better is our mission.
