Pathology Assistant

4 days ago

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Cambridge Health Alliance Full time
Job Title: Pathology Assistant

Location: Cambridge Health Alliance

Job Type: Per Diem On Call

Work Shift: Day

Hours/Week: 0.00

Union: No

Union Name: Non Union

Job Summary

Under the direct supervision of the Lab Director and Associate Pathologist, the Pathology Assistant will assist in the preparation of human surgical specimens and perform other assigned duties to ensure optimal patient care and the safety and efficiency of the Pathology Department.

Responsibilities
  • Accurately and efficiently provides gross descriptions of all surgical specimens
  • Is competent and adept in the use of Dragon Voice recognition
  • Independently troubleshoots issues with Dragon Voice
  • Creates new templates for dictation for Dragon Voice
  • Accurately and efficiently dissects tissue and puts the tissue into a properly labelled cassette for processing
  • Accurately and efficiently prints cassettes as needed
  • Accurately and efficiently completes worksheets for each specimen
  • Ensures specimen comments, which include IHC, special stains, and levels are transcribed correctly onto the specimen worksheets
  • Accurately and efficiently performs frozen sections with staining and delivery of frozen section slides within the acceptable time limits
  • Prepares touch preps and stains the slides as needed
  • Provides high quality photographs of gross specimens and microscopic slides
  • Provides high quality digital pictures with diagrams as needed for complicated cases and delivers specimens to radiology for new images
  • Efficiently delivers tissue, hardware or other foreign bodies to doctors' offices or directly to patients as needed
  • Willingly assists in the printing of proofs of dictation and other patient's information as needed
  • Loads the specimens on the processor as needed
Gross Room Quality Control and Equipment Maintenance
  • Correctly performs all required daily and monthly instrument procedures according to department specific schedules and protocols
  • Effectively troubleshoots and resolves quality control failures and instrument failures
  • Maintains an adequate supply of inventory at all times
  • Ensures that the grossing room is kept clean and organized
  • Ensures that there is appropriate monitoring of all temperature dependent equipment
  • Ensures there is proper management and labeling of the chemicals and the chemical hazardous waste
Team Skills
  • Participates daily in the team effort to efficiently complete all required department work within the appropriate time interval
  • Constructively analyzes work processes and contributes to the team effort to improve workflow as needed
  • Actively participates in committee's/task force team meetings as assigned
  • Attends and participates in all department meetings, reads minutes and completes assigned follow up tasks within the required deadline
  • Demonstrates flexibility in resolving scheduling issues
  • Trains new employees by accurately conveying information on policies and procedures of the department
  • Supports department initiatives with technical knowledge, active participation in work groups and education for other departments
Administrative Responsibilities
  • Readily assists in the organization and coordination of anatomic pathology conferences
  • Readily assists in the preparation of documents and tissue for send out cases as needed
  • Assists the pathologists in the preparation for accreditation inspections
  • Writes technical procedures as needed in accordance with established technical guidelines
  • Readily performs other tasks as assigned or directed by the manager
Safety
  • Keeps work area disinfected by washing surfaces with appropriate disinfectant at frequent intervals
  • Understands and applies principles in the Laboratory Bloodborne Pathogen Control Plan
  • Adheres to universal precautions at all times
  • Understands and applies principles in the Laboratory Chemical Hygiene Plan
  • Demonstrates adequate knowledge of disaster responses and all other laboratory and CHA safety policies
  • Demonstrates adequate competency in response to fire drills, chemical spill drills, and infectious spill drills

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