Generic Job Description Hematology Technician Grade C

Representative Duties:

Draws blood samples from patients. Reviews patient medical data for allergies and blood type. Analyzes blood samples and reports test results.

Records patient information. May graph data and calculate medication doses.

Sets up, operates, and maintains clinical and surgical equipment.

Selects and hangs blood for transfusions based on blood types. Monitors patient reactions and reports significant changes.

Perform prescribed medical procedures related to surgical activities.

Performs additional functions related to medical activities.

Family: Clinical
Job Code: 526 Date: 2/89

The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.

Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 526 Hematology Technician Grade C

Required Knowledge:
Specialized college-level coursework; detailed but narrow knowledge in one or several work-related areas; substantial knowledge of broader field of learning.
Limited knowledge of University organizational policies and procedures generally; detailed knowledge of a narrow area of University rules and procedures.

Required Skills:
Extracts and compiles a narrow range of data from written sources, from individuals by asking set questions, or from one or several given data bases; coding based on prescribed simple standards.
Understands more complicated written instructions, memoranda, and policy statements.
Writes short informal notes, fills out simple forms.
Regular, skilled use of more complex machines, including word processors or personal computers.
Performs one or several simple laboratory or scientific procedures that require some training but that can be reversed or duplicated inexpensively records results as necessary.

Office and Administrative Skills:
Schedules appointments in allotted times.
Refers callers and visitors to appropriate individual.

Experience, Education and Formal Training:
Four years of related work experience, two of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or two years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.

Complexity and Organization:
Limited variety of job tasks requiring coordinating steps/procedures.

Interpersonal Relations:
Some involvement outside immediate work unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general matters.
Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex answers that may take time to give.

Supervisory Guidelines:
Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis.
Supervisor and incumbent plan, assign, and schedule work jointly.
Instruction provided only in those new situations, methods, and procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.

Independent Judgment:
Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by using established procedures.

Leadership Responsibility:
Occasionally provides general orientation to routine policies/procedures.

Impact and Consequence of Error:
Work affects both outside the work unit and outside the University.
Errors are somewhat difficult to recognize and correct and can cause harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University, or to other individuals or groups.

Working Conditions:
Occasional possibility of safety risks.
Occasional conflicting demands, time pressures, deadlines or emergencies.
Regular sustained concentration.
Some physical effort or dexterity.

Certification:
Certification from the National Phlebotomy Association desirable