Mary Davenport
Clifton,NJ
Summary
Diligent Laboratory Assistant professional skilled in collecting and interpreting data obtained through experimentation. Maintains detailed and comprehensive laboratory notebooks and keeps operation in full compliance with standards. Meticulous, accurate and thorough with great problem-solving abilities.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Laboratory Assistant
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Englewood, NJ
05.2016 - Current
- Perform specimen Accessioning; receive, sort, enter into patient records, label and process specimens
- Collected, recorded and analyzed data from various tests.
- Add tests and correct accession problems
- Aliquot specimens; separate portions of serum and plasma
- Register outpatient and pathology specimen
- Answer phones and provide positive customer service.
- Compiled reports summarizing experimental results for review by senior staff members.
- Processed hematology and chemistry samples.
- Prepared specimens and forms for transport to outside laboratories.
Laboratory Assistant
LABCORP
Raritan, NJ
09.2014 - 04.2016
- Comply with federal, state, and local regulations concerning the chain of evidence, testing protocol, and storage of specimens
- Log samples and complete forms to report test results
- Use specialized computer software
- Demonstrate knowledge of infectious disease protocols while working with specimens from persons carrying communicable or infectious diseases
- Communicate with and provide effective customer service concerning specimen testing and specimen management to patients.
Laboratory /Administrative Assistant
BIOREFERENCE LABORTORIES
Elmwood Park, NJ
07.2009 - 02.2014
- Set up, maintain, calibrate, clean, and test sterility of medical laboratory equipment
- Perform routine laboratory tests and sample analyses
- Log specimens and prepare them for testing
- Centrifuge and aliquot
- Analyze and record test data to issue reports that use charts, graphs, or narratives
- Answer telephones and direct calls to appropriate staff
- Operate office equipment, such as voice mail messaging systems, and use word processing, spreadsheet, or other software applications to prepare reports, invoices, financial statements, letters, case histories, or medical records
- Perform administrative functions, such as ordering and maintaining an inventory of supplies
- Compile and record medical charts, reports, or correspondence
- Transmit correspondence or medical records by mail, e-mail, or fax
- Receive and route messages or documents, such as laboratory results, to appropriate staff.
Support Specialist
HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
Hackensack, NJ
09.1987 - 03.2009
- Maintain medical records, technical library, or correspondence files
- Compile and record medical charts, reports, or correspondence, using typewriter or personal computer
- Set up, maintain, calibrate, clean, and test sterility of medical laboratory equipment
- Analyze and record test data to issue reports that use charts, graphs, or narratives
- Accessioning, aliquot, and label specimen
- Centrifuge specimen, enter data, register outpatient specimens
- Demonstrate knowledge of healthcare insurances
- Answer telephones and direct calls to appropriate staff
- Greet visitors, ascertain purpose of visit, and direct them to appropriate staff
- Receive and route messages or documents, such as laboratory results, to appropriate staff
- Transmit correspondence or medical records by mail, e-mail, or fax
- Perform administrative functions, such as ordering and maintaining an inventory of supplies.
Education
Health Services Technology -
THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY
05.2024
Skills
- Laboratory Experience (10 years)
- Sample Preparation
- Calibration
- Medical Terminology (10 years)
- ICD-10 (10 years)
- Laboratory procedures
- Data entry (10 years)
- Hospital Experience (10 years)
- Presentations
- Insurance Verification (5 years)
- Clinical laboratory experience
- Supervision
- Communication
- Hematology
- Laboratory Automation
- Medical Terminology
- Specimen Processing
Assessments
- Patient-focused care, Highly Proficient, 05/01/18, Ability to address concerns and use sensitivity when responding to needs and feelings of patients.
- First aid, Highly Proficient, 05/01/18, Ability to identify treatments for common medical emergencies.
Timeline
Laboratory Assistant
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
05.2016 - Current
Laboratory Assistant
LABCORP
09.2014 - 04.2016
Laboratory /Administrative Assistant
BIOREFERENCE LABORTORIES
07.2009 - 02.2014
Support Specialist
HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
09.1987 - 03.2009
Health Services Technology -
THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY
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