The Laboratory Assistant accurately and effectively performs clerical and support duties as directed by department leadership. Key functions include promoting department efficiency, ensuring timely laboratory reports, and maintaining regulatory compliance for records organization, retention, and quality control
Essential Functions
Conducting POC Glucometer orientation, education, and monitoring, including troubleshooting and obtaining replacement meters
Printing monthly QC reports for review and performing glucometer linearity checks every six months
Publishing department education topics, documenting staff completion, and revising procedure manuals
Updating and maintaining laboratory policies and procedures electronically, ensuring biannual reviews and signatures
Preparing monthly blood and urine culture contamination rate reports and daily/monthly data for turn-around-time reports
Monitoring reference lab results for EMR scanning and reviewing chain-of-custody drug screen paperwork
Ordering and stocking phlebotomy and laboratory supplies and maintaining laboratory employee files
Preparing and updating personnel phone call and disaster call lists and performing EMR audits for transfusion reactions and blood bank issues
Assisting in the interviewing, hiring, and supervision of phlebotomists, and preparing monthly phlebotomy schedules
Performing data entry for COVID tele tracker on weekends and assisting with COC drug screen collections and specimen processing
Being available 24/7 for phlebotomy staffing issues or questions
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Work Experience
Tampa General is a private not-for-profit hospital and one of the most comprehensive medical facilities in West Central Florida serving a dozen counties with a population in excess of 4 million. As one of the largest hospitals in Florida, Tampa General is licensed for 982 beds, and with over 15,000 team members, is one of the region’s largest employers.
Consistently recognized for world-class care, Tampa General Hospital is ranked as the #1 hospital in Tampa Bay by U.S. News & World Report for 2024-25 and is nationally ranked as among the top 50 hospitals in the nation in eight specialties. Additionally, Tampa General was ranked as “high performing,” or among the top 10% of hospitals in the nation, in five more specialties along with 12 procedures and conditions.
TGH partners with the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine to pioneer breakthrough treatments, conduct game-changing clinical research and train the next generation of health care professionals. TGH is the region's only academic health system, having been affiliated with the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine since the school was created in the early 1970s.
TGH is the area’s only Level I trauma center and one of two ABA-verified Adult & Pediatric burn centers in Florida. With five medical helicopters, we are able to transport critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. The hospital is home to the leading organ transplant center in the country, having performed more than 14,000 adult solid organ transplants, including the state’s first successful heart transplant in 1985. Tampa General Hospital is committed to serving all residents of West Central Florida. We provide comprehensive health services, ranging from wellness and primary care to the most complex specialty care and post-acute services.
