Technical Lab - Lab Assistant - 1st shift, TalentBurst, Gaithersburg, MD
TalentBurst -
Gaithersburg, MD,
US
Technical Lab - Lab Assistant - 1st shift
Date Posted: 2024-06-16
Job description
Title : Lab Assistant
Duration : 4 months
Location : Gaithersburg, MD
Shift/Time Zone: 8 AM-12:00 PM EST, 20 Hours/Week
Job Description:
Perform the daily activities as described below
Basic Purpose: Perform various routine laboratory functions in a precise and accurate fashion to assist the laboratory professional staff and to facilitate production.
Job Description:
- Sorting, and receiving specimens in the department.
- Performs routine instrument maintenance on some equipment.
- Performs laboratory tasks of centrifuging specimens, printing extra labels, recording data (temperature charts) specimen storage and retrieval.
- Preparing reagents and or media in the department.
- Preparing specimens at workstations for testing
(Including building worklists, aliquoting specimens into sample cups, checking specimens for clots and fibrin, inoculation, slide preparation) - Performs QA/QC duties as assigned.
- Resolves pending lists.
- Finds missing samples.
- Decontaminates work areas.
- Performs weekly radioactive wipe tests.
- Maintains files for department records.
- Changes gas cylinders.
- Follows all PPE requirements and all safety regulations.
- Uses the laboratory computer system as well as operates PCs.
- Disposes of biohazardous material.
- Completes training and competency checklists as appropriate.
- This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities, but rather a general description of the work performed by this position.
Education:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Medical assistant training helpful.
Work Experience:
- None required but laboratory or medical experience preferred.
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