Mary Joy Linn

• Perform a mobile draw from the patient’s residence, assisted living facility, and memory care facility that has been ordered by the physician.
• Dropping off the specimen at the laboratory for testing.
• I prioritized and organized tasks to efficiently accomplish my service goal.

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• Collected specimens from pediatric, adult, geriatric, and special-needs patients.
• Processed samples accurately and efficiently.
• Verified patient information prior to specimen collection.
• Responded quickly and effectively to emergency situations such as trauma, code blue, stroke, and rapid response from the hospital setting.
• Blood specimen collection for a legal draw was requested by law officers.
• Maintained a clean, safe, and organized work environment.
• Helping in testing point-of-care tests, such as COVID, rapid strep, and urines.
• Assisted in the preparation of laboratory specimens for analysis and testing.
• Performed specimen processing by centrifugation, aliquoted the specimen in preparation prior to testing, and sent the test to our referral laboratory.
• Assisted in the training of new phlebotomists.

• Setting up a sample in an agar plate, such as urine, blood, tissues, bones, and other diluted samples that need to be cultured.
• Preparing a stool culture setup by adding stool samples into a broth that encourages the bacteria to grow.
• Retype the blood type by adding a drop of blood to a solution and observing the agglutination reaction from a certain solution to determine the individual's blood type.
• Ordering blood from the Red Cross.
• Sending blood products to different hospital locations for weekly supply rotation.
• Issuing blood, platelets, and plasma to any hospital units for transfusion upon order.
• Preparing slides for Gram stain.
• Testing rapid strep and flu samples.