Hemodialysis technician vs laboratory assistant

Differences between hemodialysis technician and laboratory assistant duties and responsibilities

Hemodialysis technician example responsibilities.

• Maintain national certification as CCHT and attain CE's as required.
• Monitor patients receiving hemodialysis, analyze individual patient response to treatment, and change plan of care accordingly.
• Provide all facets of direct care to patients receiving dialysis treatments including bandaging and administering normal saline and heparin.
• Start dialysis by inserting needles into patient's site or catheter and connecting to machines.
• Water check, setting up machines, monitoring blood pressures, performing CPR, making bicarb/acid.
• Prepare and administer heparin medications.
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Laboratory assistant example responsibilities.

• Comfort frighten patients and maintain an exceptionally bright professional demeanor to accomplish a procedure that makes most people very uncomfortable.
• Maintain and QC check laboratory equipment.
• Preform laboratory duties using microscopes, centrifuges and a host of other laboratory equipment.
• Provide excellent customer service to patients while accurately updating patient demographics, insurance and billing information in LabCorp LCM program.
• Provide continuing education in the form of periodic in-services relating the phlebotomy procedures, tests and proper specimen collection requirements.
• Process eyewear to meet national ANSII and OSHA standards.
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