Travel Medical Lab Technician
Springfield, Illinois
Memorial Health

BLS

State License 1 Verification

NURSYS Verification (RN, LPN/LVN, AP)

Shift: 5x8 Days (0530-1400)

Years of experience REQ: Minimum 2 years experience required

First-timers accepted: Yes

Weekend REQ: None

Is on-call REQ? No.

Will clinician float within scope to meet facility needs? No

Open to accommodating block schedule? Schedule is M-F.

Locals accepted: Yes- no radius.

Pending License accepted: No.

RTO Restrictions: Ideally no more than 5 days.

Guaranteed Hours: Client may call-off up to 36 hours per thirteen week assignment without paying for the cancelled hours.

Required Work Setting Experience: Commercial or Reference Laboratories, Hospital clinical laboratory.

Required Grossing and Fixation Skills/Experience: Additive Fixatives, Coagulant/non-coagulant fixatives, Core biopsies, Curettings, Decalcification, Formalin, Identify of pigments through microscope, Incisional biopsies, Reagents types/components, Shave biopsies.

Required Tissue Processing Skills/Experience: Automatic tissue processor, Calcified/decalcified tissue, Clearing/types of agents, Dehydration/types of agents, GI Processing Schedule.

Required Embedding and Microtomy Skills/Experience: Automated/Manual Microtome, Cuts tissue sections using microtome and cryostat, Cutting blocks, Embedding GI specimens, Embedding large specimens, Embedding smalls and bigs, Embedding skin techniques, Histology Cassettes, Microtomy of Fatty Tissue, Microtomy of Frozen sections, Microtomy of hard tissue, Paraffin Wax sections, Precision microtomy, Removing foreign objects as allowed by protocol.

Required Staining Skills/Experience: Cytoplasmic stains, Differentiation, Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stain, Identifying Artifacts, Nuclear stains, Prepares slides for staining.

Required Mounting Procedure Skills/Experience: Aqueous, Coverslip, Refractive Index, Resinous.

Quality Control skills/experience required.

Cerner experience required.

Teaching & Community Hospital Experience required.

Shift: 5x8 Days (0530-1400)

Charting: Cerner

Parking Cost: parking permit required, no cost. Will fill out form during orientation.