Medical Technician (Blood Banking)

<p>About the Position: This position is located within Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) in the Dir of Clinical Support Armed service Blood Bank Center and Blood Donor Center. Tripler Army Medical Center is a tobacco-free workplace. Tobacco products include, but are not limited to, smoking, smokeless tobacco, an delectronic nicotine delivery devices. This is a Direct Hire Solicitation</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>Travel in government vehicle, set up, and participate in local blood drives as needed.</p><p>Register donors manually or by computer.</p><p>Perform personal interviews to obtain medical histories and visual inspections of blood donors.</p><p>Screen subjects (volunteer blood donors, autologous, and therapeutic patients) donating blood and exercises care to ensure that their blood is safe for use prior to donation.</p><p>Take vital signs (i.e. temperature, pulse, and blood pressure), and checks hemoglobin and/or hematocrit level ensuring that prospective donors are eligible to donate blood.</p><p>Monitor donor during donation process, observe for, and treat possible donor adverse reaction (i.e. light headache, passing out, convulsing, etc.).</p><p>Prepare donor samples and whole blood shipping documents to be sent to testing laboratory.</p><h3>Education</h3>FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.