Lab Aide - Pathology

Accountabilities:

• Laboratory reception – welcomes and assists visitors/vendors/couriers at the reception desk
• Pathology specimen (e.g. blocks, slides) reception, packaging and dispatch
• Retrieval of blocks and slides for review, rounds, consults and clinical trials
• Requests to the pathologists for the selection of representative samples to be referred out
• Handles requests for pathology/cytology consults as per Laboratory protocol
• Documents disposition of referred out materials (material sent, date sent, date material returned) and routinely monitors for outstanding materials; contacts referral lab to expedite return of materials
• Laboratory reports distribution
• Retrieves electronic reports and faxes to health care requesters as per Laboratory protocols
• Telephone assistance
• Aids in investigation of queries from laboratory personnel
• Files non-conformance reports as require...