Description: JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
. Follow the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test result;
. Maintain records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens;
. Analyze specimens using approved testing procedures (see department SOPs).
. Review and release test results.
. Follow CLIA, HIPAA, OSHA, and safety guidelines as described in their respective guidelines.
. Adhere to the laboratory's quality control policies, document all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and all maintenance performed;
. Follow the laboratory's established policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance.
. Identify problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results, correct the problems en...