Compassionate nursing student with hands-on experience in clinical settings, adept in patient care, health assessments, and medication administration. Proven ability to provide empathetic support while collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary teams. Committed to enhancing patient safety and delivering high-quality healthcare.
• Centrifuge blood samples and body fluids.
• Monitors outstanding specimen logs, as well as specimen/patient trackers, to resolve pending issues.
• Performs clerical functions such as charting, faxing results to doctors' offices, and verbally giving results to doctors.
• Send/Receive specimens from other hospitals.
Separate serum, plasma, and body fluids; freeze, refrigerate, and keep the specimen at room temperature.
• Exhibit appropriate collection protocol for: blood cultures, skin punctures, neonatal draws, and blood.
• Maintain needed equipment and supplies.
• Orients and mentors new staff members.
Follow hospital policies and procedures for transporting and delivering samples to the laboratory.