Job Description

Make a difference every single day!

At Cedars-Sinai, we're motivated by a collective spirit of innovation and the challenge to continuously improve. Above all, we share a real passion for helping others. Day after day, from department to department, our people give their all to create a community unlike any other. This is just one of the many reasons U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America?s Best Hospitals-and now we invite you to join us and make a difference every single day in service of this outstanding work - excellence and innovation in patient care, research, and community service. From working with a team of dedicated professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you?ll have great resources to do something incredible-for yourself, and for others.

What will you be doing in this role?

Under general supervision, the Certified Phlebotomist performs blood collection procedures, including venipuncture, skin puncture and special collection procedures.  Responsibilities include accurately collecting, labeling, receiving, and distributing laboratory specimens, maintaining records, and ensuring specimen integrity. Performs all duties with attention to safety, quality, and sensitivity to the age and developmental needs of the patient population(s) served.

• Performs a wide range of phlebotomy procedures including venipuncture, capillary puncture, and special collection procedures; and uses proper technique in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Maintains phlebotomy trays, carts, and collection areas in clean, sanitary, and properly stocked conditions.
• Accurately logs specimen collection information in the Laboratory Information System (LIS) or designated logs. Performs pre-analytical specimen processes.
• Collects, transports, labels and distributes patient specimens while maintaining specimen integrity and proper handling procedures.
• Performs routine operational and support duties such as stocking supplies, discarding expired materials, and maintaining organized work areas.
• Verifies specimen identification, assesses appropriateness of test orders and quality of specimen by recognizing factors that affect procedures and results; and takes appropriate action when corrections are indicated.
• Identifies patients and patient samples by strict adherence to established procedures and use of two patient identifiers; and labels samples accurately and completely.
• Attends to routine administrative functions including recordkeeping, completion of requisitions, and maintenance of collection documentation.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• High school diploma or its equivalent.
• Phlebotomy Certificate that meets the mandates of the laws and regulations of the State of California.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification.
• One (1) year experience as a phlebotomist in a hospital setting, including familiarity with laboratory information systems, preferred. 

Night shift role: hours of 7:00 PM to 7:30 AM. Rotating schedule: every other weekend, including Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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