Jesus Jacobs
Mabelvale,AR
Summary
Traveling Clinical Laboratory Scientist with many years of experience in many different clinical settings. Efficiently works to ensure quality control is accurate and specimens are completed within recommended times to meet laboratory demands. Fast learner for laboratories that require immediate staffing support. Ensures a level of detail that prioritizes safety and quality over speed of test results.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Travel MT/CLS
Aureus Medical Group
05.2018 - Current
- Maintained strict adherence to prescribed lab safety guidelines and operational instructions.
- Maintained certification with American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) and California CLS certification
- Documented test results using computerized and manual transcription methods.
- Identified and resolved unexpected results, directing secondary testing measures or collection efforts.
- Maintained safe work environment free of unnecessary hazards to protect staff and testing results.
- Conducted wide range of high complexity laboratory tests as a generalist in the following departments of hematology, blood bank, chemistry and microbiology
- Performed and documented accurate transfusion reaction investigations.
- Identified and traced quality control issues impacting laboratory results.
- Maintain compliance according to state and facility requirements.
- Ensuring constant communication between hospital and contract manager to ensure a smooth work environment for all parties
Medical Laboratory Technologist
Arkansas Children's Hospital
01.2016 - 05.2018
- Utilize expertise in microbiology, chemistry, and hematology to help with diagnosis of medical issues with understanding specialized to neonatal healthcare.
- Maintained confidentiality of all patient information to conform to HIPAA, internal, and other regulatory standards.
- Performed comprehensive analysis of patient samples and generated detailed reports to inform medical staff of results. In addition to referring more complex cases such as potential leukemia screening to a pathologist for review.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Medical Laboratory Sciences
UAMS College of Health Professions
Little Rock12-2015
Skills
- Experience with many LIS systems including: Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Vista, and Softlab
- Experience in quality control, maintenance, and patient testing with many Laboratory analyzers in Blood Bank, Hematology, Chemistry, and Coagulation
- Experience working with small community hospitals and moderately larger 336 bed hospitals
- Experience with level I emergency rooms in the blood bank setting
- Experience with neonatal to geriatric patient populations in regards to laboratory testing
- Experience with setting up microbiology specimens and reading positive blood culture gram stains
- Experience with phlebotomy in past travel contracts
- Experience with finding personal housing and transportation appropriate for travel contracts
Certification
Medical Laboratory Scientist (ASCP)
California - Clinical Laboratory Scientist license
Timeline
Travel MT/CLS
Aureus Medical Group
05.2018 - Current
Medical Laboratory Technologist
Arkansas Children's Hospital
01.2016 - 05.2018
Medical Laboratory Scientist (ASCP)
California - Clinical Laboratory Scientist license
Bachelor of Science - Medical Laboratory Sciences
UAMS College of Health Professions
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