Student Medical Technician

The Ohio State University

9d•Onsite

About The Position

SCOPE OF POSITION The Critical Care Laboratory provides comprehensive, time sensitive laboratory services to patients with a variety of diagnoses or admission/discharge criteria. The Critical Care Laboratory utilizes a total laboratory automated system that delivers specimens to automated chemistry, hematology, urinalysis, blood gases, immunochemistry, and coagulation analyzers. The lab provides training for residents, new staff and medical technology students. The laboratory is staffed 24 hours per day, Sunday through Saturday. Student techs will perform and document quality control, quality assurance and preventative maintenance on instrumentation. Student employees will work in the following areas of the lab, chemistry, immunochemistry, blood gas, hematology, and coagulation. Works under the direction of the Lab manager, lead technologist and medical technologist and medical laboratory technologist-testing. POSITION SUMMARY This Student Medical Technician works as part of a dynamic team to perform routine automated and manual procedures, verify and report test requests, troubleshoot analyzers and test methods, review quality control values and results. Technologists deftly handle phone inquiries from both internal and external customers, call critical value results, and problem solve pre-analytical issues. All employees work under the direction of the division directors, manager, and lead technologists.