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Shift Notes — How Much Training Is Enough? (opens the original)
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Picture a new hire on a Monday morning. She spends the day following a coworker around, watching how things work, and learning where things are. She shadows a coworker for two days, draws a few patients on day three while someone watches, and on day four she’s handed a phlebotomy tray and a list of things to do. She’s largely on her own, unsupervised. Nobody signs anything, because nobody thinks they need to.Six months later, a patient develops a nerve injury after a draw, or a mislabeled specim
Case Study — The Third Stick (opens the original)
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Every phlebotomist has missed a vein. That’s not the problem. The problem starts on stick number three.Early in my career, I went to draw blood from a young man in his early twenties who had veins you could see from across the room — the kind every phlebotomist dreams about. Before I’d even finished prepping, he warned me that people often had trouble getting blood from him, for reasons neither of us understood. I laughed, a little in disbelief. Looking at his arm, that seemed impossible.I went
The Second Time This Has Ever Happened (opens the original)
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Less than a one-day national supply of type O positive blood. That’s the number that pushed the American Red Cross to declare a national blood supply crisis this summer — only the second time in the organization’s history it has used that exact designation.I’ve spent enough years around blood collection, in the ER, in the field, and now in the classroom, that numbers like that don’t just register as statistics. They register as patients. As doctors making calls they shouldn’t have to make. As ev
The Labor in Phlebotomy (opens the original)
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The lab doesn’t observe federal holidays. Neither does the ER, or the med-surg floor, or the outpatient draw station that opens at 6 a.m. whether or not the calendar says Monday is a day off. So while most of the country spent yesterday at a cookout or closing out the pool for the season, a lot of you were standing over a bed rail, introducing yourselves to someone who’s scared, or in pain, or both, and asking permission to put a needle in their arm. Nobody hung a banner for that.Labor Day start
What to Say After a Failed Stick (opens the original)
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Every phlebotomist misses sometimes. It doesn’t matter how many years you’ve been doing this or how good your hands are — veins roll, patients tense up, anatomy surprises you. One thing that can separate a good phlebotomist from a great one isn’t whether you miss. It’s what you say in the ten seconds after you do. It’s how you handle it afterwards.And too often, what gets said is some version of: “Your veins are just really rolly today.” Or, “Do people tell you you’re a tough stick?” Or my perso
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