Technician Assistant
Resume:
Gary Lee Pickens
Riverside, CA 92506
Cellular: 951-***-****
Objective:
To attain full-time employment in a hospital environment utilizing my laboratory training
and 15 years experience.
Work Experience:
11/02 to Present Exam-One – Riverside, CA (Part-time only)
Medical Examiner/Phlebotomist
Duties consisted of doing medical exams for insurance companies
(performing EKG, taking blood pressure, pulse, height, weight,
drawing blood, and collecting urine specimen).
1/11 to 8/2013 Corona Regional Medical Center (Per-Diem)
Laboratory Assistant/Phlebotomist
Working In-house patients, Emergency Room and doing AM rounds.
Working PM shifts and graveyard shifts.
6/05 to 9/09 San Antonio Community Hospital – Upland, CA
Laboratory Assistant Technician
Phlebotomist
Working in-house Patients and Emergency Room, doing Am
Rounds, drawing blood for Intensive Care Unit, Coronary Care Unit,
Pediatrics, and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
CP = Central Processing/Micro
CP: Duties: Check printers/paper, call up lists for night, check time
draw, put away blood, monitor breaks and lunches, file
paperwork/send daily reports to floor, process lab order from united
into computer, do am draw count.
Micro: Set up any stat micro, make slides and stain them, clean
under the hood/sign charts, load blood culture into machine.
9/04 to 6/05 Kindred Hospital – Ontario, CA
Phlebotomist
Duties consisted of drawing blood, mainly for am rounds (04:00am
to 08:00 AM). This is an Intensive Care Hospital.
6/99 to 7/04 Kaiser Hospital – Fontana, CA
Phlebotomist
Hospital experience: working inpatients and outpatients, doing
rounds, drawing blood for Neonte Intensive care unit, Coronary care
unit, Intensive care unit, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Emergency room.
Blood Bank experience: working with cancer patients, dialysis
patients, rehabilitation patients, and at a number of Kaiser’s outside
draw stations.
5/99 to 12/99 Parkview Hospital – Riverside, CA
Phlebotomist
Duties consisted of completing a morning route which included
drawing blood and collecting other specimens (from nursing homes,
convalescent hospitals, and retirement centers) and processing them
in the hospital laboratory.
1/97 to 4/99 American Forensic Nurses – Riverside, CA
Blood Nurse/Phlebotomist
Worked as a mobile phlebotomist, drawing blood at police stations,
prisons, hospital emergency rooms, and accident scenes.
8/97 to 9/98 Biopath Clinical Laboratories Inc. – Van Nuys, CA
Phlebotomist
Duties consisted of completing a morning route to nursing homes,
convalescent hospitals, and retirement centers, where I collected
blood and other specimens, took them to a drop area, and STAT test
to a local hospital.
8/96 to 2/99 Lab Corp. of America – Riverside, CA
Phlebotomist/Patient Service Technician/Front Desk Clerk
Phlebotomist: Performed phlebotomy procedure (Syringe Draw and
Butterfly Vacutainer), processed all blood specimens (including
frozen specimens) for pick-up and transport by courier to the main
laboratory.
Patient Service Technician: worked as a float PST servicing twenty-
two draw stations in the Inland Valley area.
Front Desk Clerk: Collected patient insurance information,
addressed client questions regarding lab work and/or specimens
collected at draw stations, and answered telephones.
9/95 to 8/96 UNILAB – Hemet, CA
Phlebotomist/Clerk
Phlebotomist: Performed phlebotomy procedures, using all
techniques as necessary (Syringe Draw and Butterfly Vacutainer),
processed all blood specimens (including frozen specimens) for
pick-up and transport by courier to the main laboratory.
Clerk: Accepted doctor’s orders from patients, formed orders into
Unilab Requisition (test and coding), collected all insurance
answered phones, addressed client questions regarding lab work
and/or specimens collected at the draw stations.
Special Responsibilities/Duties: Checked individual tubes (in
phlebotomy drawer, tray, or phlebotomy area) and unopened boxes
for expiration dates and discarded all expired tubes or collection
materials. Wrote the date of receipt on all boxed tubes as received,
rotated stock, informed suppliers (Logistics) of any tubes or boxes of
tubes due to expire within one month of delivery, and informed other
employees in the facility of an abundance of tubes due to expire in
the near future.
2/95 to 1/97 Entrepreneur Personal Service – Riverside, CA
Phlebotomist
Worked as a “mobile” Phlebotomist at police stations, prisons,
hospital emergency rooms, and accident scenes.
6/94 to 9/94 Yorba Park Medical Group, INC. – Orange, CA
Assistant Medical Laboratory Technician
Responsibilities included drawing blood, collecting urine and other
specimens, conducting urine and serum pregnancy testing,
performing some urine cultures and strep screenings, labeling
specimens, centrifuging blood and urine after processing it, logging
in/out PAPS and Biopsy, filing, and computer inputting.
*special equipment used Blood Centrifuge, Urine Centrifuge,
Spectrum 2000 (Enzyme Analyzer), INDC Analyzer (Hormones),
and TDX Analyzer (Drugs).
5/94 to 6/94 Long Beach Compressive Health Center – Long Beach, CA
Phlebotomist Technician
Duties consisted of inputting patient information into the computer,
drawing blood, collecting urine specimens, labeling and processing
specimens, and sending them out to laboratories.
4/80 to 7/93 ROHR Industries, INC. – Riverside, CA
Supervisor/Assembler
Worked as a Composite Fabricator and Adhesive Bond Fabricator,
worked with Autoclaves, and bagging area. Drills, surface grinders,
and saws are some of the shop equipment I used. Also I worked
Research and Development for 4 years on new projects.
Educational Background
1/94 to 8/94 ILA Polytechnic Institutes – Orange, CA
Medical Laboratory Assistant – Diploma and Venipuncture
Certificate
Through study of Hematology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Urinalysis,
and Phlebotomy. Practicum training included actual laboratory
environment and equipment familiarization.
9/78 to 6/80 University of California, Riverside – Riverside, CA
Major: Sociology
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