Melanie
What duties does a phlebotomist preform?
#healthcare #phlebotomist
3 answers
Shannon Kelley
Shannon’s Answer
sometimes you'll draw blood from a brand-new mom, and you can draw the blood from the arm not holding the baby's weight. she won't have to move the baby at all. little things like that are very rewarding.
Beverly Johnson
Beverly’s Answer
2.Responsible for completing all data entry requirements accurately including data entry of patient registration; entry of test order from requisition or pulling order from database; managing Standing Orders.
3.Data entry and processing specimens including: labeling, centrifuging, splitting, and freezing specimens as required by test order.
And that is just a fraction of the responsibilities of a phlebotomist.
Alyssa DePardo
Alyssa’s Answer
Phlebotomists are people trained to draw blood from a patient (mostly from veins) for clinical or medical testing, transfusions, donations, or research. Phlebotomists collect blood primarily by performing venipunctures (or, for collection of minute quantities of blood, finger sticks). The duties of a phlebotomist may include properly identifying the patient, interpreting the tests requested on the requisition, drawing blood into the correct tubes with the proper additives, accurately explaining the procedure to the patients, preparing patients accordingly, practising the required forms of asepsis, practising standard and universal precautions, performing the skin/vein puncture, withdrawing blood into containers or tubes, restoring hemostasis of the puncture site, instructing patients on post-puncture care, ordering tests per the doctor's requisition, affixing tubes with electronically printed labels, and delivering specimens to a laboratory.