The Phlebotomy Specialist will perform precise blood collections on all age groups for inpatients and outpatients, ensuring patient comfort and accuracy. They will also accelerate laboratory turnaround times through expert specimen processing and assist with essential clerical duties to support seamless laboratory operations.
Requirements summary
Candidates must possess a minimum of a High School diploma or GED and demonstrate excellent customer service and time management skills. Preferred qualifications include a Phlebotomy certificate and three months of phlebotomy experience in an acute care facility, with BLS certification required within 90 days.
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Job description
Where You’ll Work At Dignity Health, living our values means bringing passion into action every day.
Dignity Health-Yavapai Regional Medical Center (DH-YRMC), now part of CommonSpirit Health, is a not-for-profit integrated healthcare provider that offers a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services including network-wide opportunities to advance your career.
What started as a simple community hospital, is today a state-of-the-art healthcare system with two acute care hospitals, a network of primary and specialty care clinics, outpatient health and wellness centers, cardiac diagnostic centers, and outpatient medical imaging centers.
As you build your career at DH-YRMC, you’ll find Prescott is an inspiring place to live, work, and enjoy the outdoors.
It is an inviting community with bygone charm and modern amenities.
Local residents enjoy four spectacular seasons, while the area offers nearly year-round sunshine for any outdoor adventures.
The carefree, relaxed lifestyle offers short commute opportunities, so you can focus on your career and your family.
Dignity Health-Yavapai Regional Medical Center extends this feeling with a strong sense of family, security, and belonging.
Our compassion and commitment to quality care have earned awards, such as the Stroke Care Excellence Award (2022), Neuroscience Excellence Award (2021, 2020), and America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care Awards (2020, 2021) and have placed us at the top of the charts in community and nationwide in healthcare.
Come experience the incredible quality-of-life that Dignity Health-YRMC and Prescott have to offer! #hellohumankindness Job Summary and Responsibilities As our Phlebotomist, you will help patients and co-workers perform blood collection and specimen processing, assisting with clerical duties as requested) so they can maintain laboratory collection turnaround time and ensure accurate specimen processing.
Every day, you will practice positive patient identification and follow blood collection procedures.
You will be expected to perform venous and capillary punctures on all age groups, utilize appropriate collection techniques to obtain quality samples, and prioritize work activities to assure efficiency and turnaround time requirements are met).
To be successful in this role, you must be a highly skilled professional capable of executing precise blood collections with a patient-first approach, ensuring comfort and accuracy.
You must be instrumental in accelerating critical laboratory turnaround times through expert specimen processing, efficiently handling essential clerical duties, and thriving in a fast-paced environment where your precision and efficiency directly contribute to saving lives and advancing medical understanding.
Practices positive patient identification at all times, in all job functions.
Practices HumanKindness and courtesy with all patient and co-worker interactions.
Establishes and maintains good communication within the department and with other hospital departments.
Compliance with isolation and hand sanitization procedures.
Follows blood collection procedures, performs venous and capillary punctures on all age groups of inpatient and outpatient populations.
Utilizes appropriate collection techniques to obtain quality samples and adheres to appropriate volume requirements.
Performs Blood Bank collections.
Follows written collection and Blood Bank banding procedures.
Demonstrates accuracy and good penmanship.
Adheres to specimen requirements.
Maintains order and cleanliness of phlebotomy trays, stations and storage rooms.
Job Requirements Minimum High School diploma or GED Excellent customer service and time management skills American Heart Association BLS Provider certification within 90 days Preferred Phlebotomy certificate 3 months phlebotomy in an acute care facility
