• Clinical Laboratory Assistant/Phlebotomist: an employee whose duties include obtaining blood specimens, requisitioning laboratory tests in the computer, transporting specimens, preparing specimens for testing, and performing testing in different areas of the clinical laboratory.
-Operates laboratory instruments
-Drawing arterial blood gases
• Phlebotomy: taking blood from the vein
• Clinical Laboratory: (Medical Laboratory) separate section of a healthcare facility where blood, urine, sputum, stool, and tissues are analyzed in a precise, accurate, and timely manner.
-Sputum: mucous coughed up from lung
Diseases Diagnosed in the Laboratory:
-diabetes
-heart attack
-strep throat
-leukemia
Laboratories can be found in...
-public health departments
-health maintenance organizations (HMO’s)
-physicians’ offices
-research facilities
-veterinary clinics
-insurance companies
-armed forces health facilities
• Inpatient: a patient who is admitted into a healthcare facility and receives treatment within the facility itself.
• Outpatient: a patient who receives treatment from a facility without being admitted into the hospital.
• Clinical Laboratory Aide: unskilled position, involves cleaning soiled laboratory glassware, restocking supplies, and doing general cleanup in the lab.
• Clinical Laboratory Clerical Worker: interfaces with computer system, performing tasks as entering tests into the computer and retrieving results for physicians; answers phone calls on a busy telephone system and distributes reports to physicians, hospital floors and the medical records department of a healthcare facility.
-high school diploma & training
• Clinical Laboratory Assistant/Phlebotomist: (Venipuncture Tech, Lab Assistant, Phlebotomist, and Clinical Lab Assistant) involves obtaining blood specimens, requesting lab tests on the computer, transporting specimens, preparing specimens for testing, performing simple tests in different departments of the...