Phulbotomy Program

A Phlebotomist is performing Venepuncture on a patient when the patient has a Vasovagal Syncope. The Phlebotomist checks the ‘Vital Signs’ to determine the state of the patients’ health using a Sphygmanomometer, the readings are as follow; Blood pressure 98/55, Pulse 135, Respirations 30 and temperature 37.8.

Write up a phlebotomy venipuncture procedure that you can use for the rest of the year and beyond. You may use textbooks, the internet, videos, pictures, and other laboratory procedures as examples. Make sure your procedure is in your own words and is easy to read and understand for use in a clinical setting. Please take a look at other Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in order to see an appropriate format for writing laboratory procedures. This will be a “living document” that will change and grow once you learn and experience more situations that will give you more “tricks” to utilize in the art of phlebotomy.

I would like to express my interest in the Phlebotomy Technician I position at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City. Over the past couple years my interest in the medical field has grown. After I decided to study Biochemistry as a pre-med student at Albion College I’ve sought out opportunities to develop my understanding of medicine. I have experienced different practices and ideas while job shadowing physicians, taking a course on the practice of healthcare at Albion College (I will take another in the fall), and, most recently, volunteering two days a week in the Emergency Department at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City. As a practice, phlebotomy intrigues me; the process of collecting samples through direct patient contact

A 2-year technical training program completion, or completion of a 3 year apprenticeship, is strongly preferred.

Technology in my field of chose is being a phlebotomist. Being a phlebotomist is one of the most important jobs in the hospitals, labs, blood banks, and clinics. Being able to run the correct tests and lab draws is very important part of technology. Working in a different environment is very difficult , every place is different. More fast paste places will have a lot of on your feet job then working in a lab or clinic. Being a phlebotomist you will have to work with a lot of different machines that do different things. One single machine as a purpose , and function. If it was not for technology we wouldn’t have electronic health records or E prescription which is the order of draw. In clinics or blood banks they would have limited technology

Internships in this case are rare. Dillard University College of business does have a class dedicated to

“Phlebotomy has been dated back thousands of years and has been linked to many ancient cultures. Back then phlebotomy was called bloodletting. Bloodletting was where a doctor would cut certain areas of a patient’s body and let the blood drain until the patient fainted. The initial goal to this treatment was to try and cure the patient of the plague, leprosy, stroke, inflammation and many more. After failed attempts and many fatalities, bloodletting was banned in the late 19th century” (Bloodletting Is Back). But it was brought back in the 20th century to present day. Now imagine that you have suddenly become ill on a family vacation and end up in the doctor’s office. The doctor has ordered some tests to be done in the lab. There you will be associated with a Phlebotomist. What is a phlebotomist you may ask? Well, “a phlebotomist is a

The six week practical rotation I completed at SJOGH Mount Lawley operating theatre solidified my goal to be part of the theatre and recovery team. During this time I studied instrument names, passing technique, sterile scrub procedure and how to set up and maintain the sterile field. On several occasions I was able to act as scrub scout, only requiring supervision and assistance from my buddy nurse with medications because it was out of my scope of practice to

The beginning of phlebotomy has been well documented before the 5th century B.C. It was thought that all aspects of the body’s health came from the four body humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile (wikipedia/humorism). In times of illness, health was restored by purging, starving, vomiting, and bloodletting. Astrology played a big part in healing according to the phases of the moon. Healing was mostly controlled by priests, and then passed along to barbers who took over the daunting tasks of body healing. The red and white stripes of the barber’s pole signified a place of healing. Red represented the blood, and white represented the tourniquet. Using tools called “spring loaded lancet,” “scarificator,” and “fleam,” the body was to be brought back to a normal state (Mestel, wikipedia). The barbers were armed with tools to amputate, pull teeth, and remove blood (Ford, Graham). Little did they know that the popularity of draining the body of between 1 to 4 pints of blood could be deadly. Leeches were another popular bloodletting instrument. After engorging themselves, they would then fall off the body where the blood would continue to ooze out due to clot inhibitor they left behind (Mestel). Another popular procedure called cupping involved making a cut into a vein and applying a heated vacuum flow cup over the incision. In 1799, our first president George Washington, was drained of nine

I. I am targeting an internship in the northeastern Ohio region preferably in the Youngstown-Warren region.

    Phlebotomist workers has to go to a 4 year university or go to a summer program. The summer program only takes 1 year to complete or even less than one year. They need to learn specific topics like anatomy, medical terminology and also physiology, They need to have a high school diploma and they are also going

Being able to work along side some fantastic PAs and physicians has allowed me to benefit from their instruction and experience. My observations of procedures and treatment plans will help assimilate information from lectures and clinical

Unlike many other areas of health care, the training needed does not take months. Most training programs, when taken full time, will take a matter of weeks to complete. They can be found in various places. Many community colleges have phlebotomy programs, and some hospitals will have training

Throughout my undergraduate career at the University of South Carolina, I continually found myself drawn to internship opportunities

Phlebotomy, otherwise known as venipuncture, is the art of drawing blood from the human body. This skill has been practiced since the time before the birth of Christ, originating in early civilizations of the ancient Egyptians and Mayans approximately 3000 years ago. The understanding of how the human body works, including the substance that flows through each individual, has continuously been on the forefront of the mind of many researchers, as well as within the very culture of many communities. As a result, these explorers needed the use of various instruments; as a way to be able to chart, investigate, and cleanse the body of impurities or excess fluid. The art of phlebotomy was once viewed as horrific and repulsive, but it has become