I'm a phlebotomist and one of my favorite parts of my job is when I stick someone and they ask "is it in?" (It is) quickly followed up with "wow! That was the best I've ever had!"
So here's a random question, which will most likely gather three notes as per usual, do you know what a phlebotomist is? Do you want to? Asking because I feel like talking about my job and I have no one to do so with atm 🙃
I was scrolling throught yt shorts and saw this vid and looked at the comments.
The video shows that the op got bruised after getting his blood drawn.
I see a lot of the commentors and their same experience as the op and I feel for them. Such as nurses sticking needles a lot of times cause the can't find the vein and such...
As far as I know, nurses are trained to perform venipuncture but it would be better to leave it to the phlebotomist as it's their expertise.
But as a future medtech/phlebotomist, this is what I'm scared of. Everybody starts from the beginning and to become proficient in something, you need to start from somewhere even if you're not good at it.
If the patient is nervous, I'm more nervous than them! I'm actually scared on harming them if I failed to draw blood from them. In advance, I'm sorry but I have to start from somewhere and this will help us beginners to improve in venipuncture.
Spent Halloween celebrating a friends birthday 🎈 at Taj lounge this year funk flex was the dj, I was a vampire phlebotomist 🧛🏽♀️💉🩸I always wanted to dress up as some sort of medical worker for Halloween so I got a lil creative i definitely slayed it 💯🖤
I did it! Three months ago, I began the phlebotomy program at NWCC, and I will officially be graduating in May! I was so scared when I began the program. All i really knew was that I couldn’t go on continuing to make 10$ an hour serving people who couldn’t care less if i existed or lost my job because they wanted something for free. I was just done. I was also struggling with the fear of something happening to my husband and leaving me with hardly any real skill or income. So, we agreed that I enter into a trade school full time while he worked to keep us going so that I could focus completely on succeeding. I was terrified of letting him down by failing. I’ve done college before. I tried going for my psychology degree but i kept failing my required math class. No matter how much I studied and got tutoring, I just failed and failed and failed until I ran out of money and time. I was traumatized by my failure and wasn’t sure this was going to work out. He also was nervous I would fail again and that it would break me. But I had to try. And here I am. I passed the national exam, passed all of my finals, passed with fantastic grades! And I already started my first phlebotomy job. Is the job overwhelming? So far, yes. It is stressful. But as it is one of the few facilitates that will hire new grads, I am taking this as a stepping stone towards my future. At this facility, everyone does everything. Drug screenings, processing, draws, sample packaging, all of it. Whereas other facilities, (I’ve heard) will typically give you a singular position. So, if I can survive this job for the next 2 or so years, I believe I can survive anywhere. I am still working part time as an entry level phlebotomist, but i am now making 17/hr, which is far better than what I was making in retail. I finally feel like I’ll really be contributing to the finances and helping us get into our future house. I’m hopeful for what the future holds.