American Red Cross Work Values

Daily Duties at American Red Cross:

Supervise team varying from 2 to 20 paid and volunteer members. Responsible for ensuring team members have assembled materials and equipment necessary for the designated daily blood collection drive, including donor tables, blood collection tables, blood collection supplies, computers, forms and refreshments. Supervised the loading of transport vehicles including ensuring correct staff present. Drove staff or designated driver for transport to and from donation site. Supervised and assisted with setting up donor site including where to set up the donor tables taking into consideration lighting, airflow, accessibility to restrooms, ease of donor entrance and exit; ensuring quality control measures correctly performed on collection equipment including computes used for donor interviews and testing; ensuring temporary storage equipment within specifications as outlined by the American Red Cross and the American Association of Blood Banks to protect donor blood and ensuring transportation of collected blood to the Red Cross processing center within specified time frame. Conducted each Blood Drive according to specified Red Cross guidelines interviewing donors using specified interview template, testing to ensure they were healthy enough to donate; Supervising up to 10 additional interviewers answering questions, clarifying data and/or questions as needed. Performing donor phlebotomy and supervising up to 10 additional phlebotomy staff, including preparation of the needle insertion site to maintain asepsis, assist with needle adjustments per Red Cross policies and procedures, monitor both the collection process and donor reaction to prevent adverse affects or to maintain donor safety if an adverse reaction were to occur. Supervise the temporary storage of donations until Blood Drive completed including helping to clear any issues that may have arisen and approving determinations of correct process for any suspect donor product. Assisted with disassembly of donor site and transportation back to the Red Cross headquarters. Assisted with unloading and correctly processing donated materials into the reception area for final laboratory processing. Completed documentation pertaining to each drive ensuring the correct documents accompanied each donated unit of blood so that no unit would necessitate disposal. Contributed to the employee annual review process. Responsible for training new phlebotomy personnel on correct methods, policies an procedures for collecting donated blood; new Nursing staff on correct interview process following strict Red Cross and AABB guidelines and regulations.

What they like about American Red Cross:

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Skills

Microsoft Office, CPOE, Nursing Documentation, Physician Documentation, SNOMED, GoTo Meeting, WebEx, Project Management, Project Planning, Process Design and Automation, Workflow Analysis, Needs/Requirement Analysis, Meaningful Use Stage I/II, Data Extraction/Analysis, Employee Supervision

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