Medical Laboratory Scientist

Summary

To perform accurate and timely clinical laboratory services using current technology.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Following the laboratory’s procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting, and maintaining records of patient results

• Maintaining records which demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens

• Adhering to the laboratory’s Quality Control policies and documenting all Quality Control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations, and instrument maintenance

• Following the laboratory’s policies, including taking and documenting corrective actions, whenever test systems are not within the laboratory’s established acceptable levels of performance

• Being able to identify problems that may adversely affect test performance or test result reporting and correcting the problem or notifying the appropriate supervisor

• Documenting all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory’s established performance specifications