What an amazing and beautiful instructor! So calm, so relaxed, so----! Words just fail me. She is that good with these novices. Splendid! I hope for everybody's sake she's still teaching this phlebotomy class. So amazing!
the course i took let us draw blood from each other. i liked it. phlebotomy is pretty easy. i think its funny when people get squemish about getting their blood drawn. if the phlebotmoist doesnt fish around and pays attention to what he or she is doing then it usually never hurts.
wow you definitely could have stuck yourself cuz u were so busy putting pressure on her hand when thats her responsibility and you have to tell her that while u cover the needle and dispose of it.
For the program I was in, they actually deterred us from drawing on one another. We had clinicals at a local hospital and were only allowed to practice on patients.
i wish they let me put the safety cap on with one hand we had to grab the bottem and then pull on the cord to put the safety one when i was in school, the one handed is so much easier though hand veins can be very tricky good job.
well using the arm is the safest an easist form of collecting blood from a venous vein.the hands,well dorsal(backside of the hand)is more specifically used in geriatic or pediatric patients.or worst casr scenario,if you cant find the vein in the arm.
Ladies and Gentelmen are we not healthe care providers and not children?to all of your comments do you think patients would want to get stuck by you guys,come on man.Healthecare is rteam work Ladies an Gentelman!!!.Not one single persons Glory.Just my couple of cents in this matter.If you are an M.D or a P.A or like myself a CPT1 we all need one another
You can also attach the butterfly hose to a syringe instead of a vacutainer so you're both right. The vacuum from a tube WILL blow weak or spider veins.
Working at an outpatient lab is boringly easy compared to working at a hospital. The hospital I worked at also trained the phlebs to do ABG's also. (Legal in California so don't start the bullshit-we have a CPT-II license that allows us to do arterial punctures).
You can use a vacutainer in the hand, provided the veins are big enough to support it, and nobody is going to "take you outside and kick your ass"-especially a nurse. Nurses couldn't draw blood if their lives' depended on it. They think it's below them anyway.
That was one of the worst techniques I have ever seen, and I hope this failure didn't continue on in the class, because they would't last a week in a busy clinic or a hospital before their incompetence got them fired.
if i have to hear one more person in my line of work say, "i got rollin veins" or " im a hard stick they gotta use a butterfly" im going to commit suicide. so what i do is grab a 20 gage butterfly and they think its small.
I work in critical care, ER and ICU, and a syringe can be your best friend for people with extremely small, collapsing, blowing, or vericose veins. Why? Because *you* control the back pressure - not a tube. When somebody has been laying in an ICU bed for 3 weeks, and they've changed their IV site multiple times, you mean you're gonna go in and stick a vaccutainer in, dumbass?
The only reason a syringe might be dangerous is that you're too fucking stupid to learn how to use one.
I work in critical care, ER and ICU, and a syringe can be your best friend for people with extremely small, collapsing, blowing, or vericose veins. Why? Because *you* control the back pressure - not a tube.
When somebody has been laying in an ICU bed for 3 weeks, and they've changed their IV site multiple times, you mean you're gonna go in and stick a vaccutainer in, dumbass?
The only reason a syringe might be dangerous is that you're too fucking stupid to learn how to use one.
Hey I am not fucking stupid...you must be for the lack of training and skill you have...
I work in an area where we draw around 400+ patients a day we use syringes AS A LAST Resort-as the rest of the world see this as a bio-hazard risk that is unacceptable and a properly trained phleb can take blood without one. Maybe that is something that they don't teach you in the USA??? OR am I disillusioned by your skill and techniques? You would not last 5 minutes where I work.
I am a Registered Nurse, and I have 26 years of phlebotomy experience...I have taught, trained, and certified *hundreds* of students.
I work in the most critical of caregiving services.I want you to explain to me how a syringe is anymore a biohazard than any other collecting device (and back it up with hard data).I mean, that has to be the single most ignorant fucking thing I have ever read in my life.
Drawing 400 patients a day is easy in a fucking outpatient clinic.You say I wouldn't last, you inbred, genetic U-turn? I have fucking RUN AND MANAGED busy clinics, like that! You wouldn't be drawing 400 people a day, where I work. I some cases, our patients can take up to 30+ minutes to find acceptable places to draw from People who are missing limbs, on their deathbed, with mulitple IVs *at or below the wrist*!!!
You obviously have NO IDEA about the national health service them!! Welcome to socialised medicine! Every man gets a test, not just the ones who can afford it!
You go ahead and stick your fucking vaccutainer (and a butterfly is nothing but a vaccutainer with a long tube) in that patients hand or fingers, and one of my nurses would take you outside, kick your idiotic fucking ass, then send you to Human Recources to get fired so fast it would make your head spin. So shut your stupid fucking mouth and stop trying to act like you're some kind of authority on phlebotomy.
You are a pathetic little fucking peon at the bottom of the medical profession pay scale, so don't come around here acting like you know what you're talking about, because you don't have a fucking clue about my world where multiple people die every day, and it's my job to make them as comfortable and pain-free as possible. Too bad you don't understand compassion for these people, running your stupid butterfly up in their hands and blowing their veins out.
And you say you are at the top of the 'social scale?' I would not even come close with the b.s. comments that come from your mouth. I guess you swear at all your patients then? Fucking hell if it takes 30 minutes to draw from a patient then you can't be that good at your job. FYI I still don't think you could hand the NHS-it's not fancy enough for you!!!
@alabamapianoman YOU ARE A UNPROFESSIONAL LOSER!!!!! arguing and acting childish over the internet and you are suppose to be a medical professional UGH!!!! i just don't understand people in today's world. you are just in the field for the money UGH!!!! ( no good and trashy)
she should have already had the tube in the adapter, so when she sees blood in the tube, she just pushes the tube in, instead of searching for the tube and adapter.
This is personal choice, not everyone teaches it that way. Phlebotomy is down to personal choice and style. They teach the basics its up to you to practice it. Watch 50 Phlebotomist's and all of them will take blood slightly different.
It sounds like you know nothing about HOW to draw from a patient which has been displayed on here. Yes, you do fold the wings back idiot! How else would you have a good grasp of the needle and puncture the vein. You see how she kept messing with it?? Yes, you do have the tube in the adapter and push it in after you see the flash!! She should've had the tube and adapter ready!!! What planet are you on huh?? *Rolls eyes*
Actually I am a Phlebotomist who has worked over 14 years!!! There is more than one way to skin a cat!
At the end of the day you don't have to do thing the same as everyone else. It's not required to put the tube in the butterfly before you start either!!!
How many Herion users have you taken blood from on a daily basis? How many do you take in a day? We do well over 350+ each day!!! How dare you try to tell me how to take blood!!!
Also I must add that 99.9% of the time one has to fold the wings back, but if you have someone teaching it this way then it's not wrong. It's personal choice. You do have a better grasp on the wings if you fold them back especially on a child, and an elderly person. But just becuase you are AMERICAN does not make what you say right. I am sick of this I am a certified/registered phlebotomist BS. My training is just as good as yours if not the SAME!
What the hell does BEING an AMERICAN have anything to do with being a phlebotomist? We are talking about drawing blood from a patient!! I never said that just b/c I'am an American I'am right. Please do not put words in my mouth!! I do not wish to argue. You draw your blood your way, I'll do it my way. Thanks.
Actually it has everything to do with it it's the I am a certificated and registered phelbo who can do anything and therefore I can do anything cocky attitude. You don't know everything just becuase you say it's done that way does not make it the 'right way' it's a way not the only way!
I don't have a cocky attitude! You are the one commenting on everybody's replies. Or should I say the ones that you don't agree with. So what does that make you? This is ridiculous! Yes, there is more then one way. YOUR WAYS are not something I would suggest to somone who is going to draw. I wouldn't be surprised if you poked yourself oneday drawing blood the way you do. It hasn't happen yet...but it will. Anyway, this is my last reply. Good luck to you and have a nice life my dear!
I would never draw blood this way however I have seen MANY, MANY good PAIN FREE blood draws done without folding the wings back. If you came to another country you too would realize that the American way is NOT THE ONLY WAY!
LOL I noticed all that too Manda and I'm just starting at this. Though she did pop the tourni before removing the needle, but.. unfortunately it was after removing the tube so she stilled messed up : ( And talk about vein fishing..OMG!! LOL
"Though she did pop the tourni before removing the needle," it is the correct procedure to remove the tourniquet before taking the needle out of the vein. if you were to leave the tourniquet on the arm, and took the needle out- the vein would (for lack of better word) squirt blood.
Hee hee funny, I just posted my class' "First Stick" which was ages ago. But we worked with Bob the rubber arm. We weren't allowed to bring the cameras in when we started with real arms!
I've been a phlebo for 5 years, and watching this made me cringe. Not sure why you'd have the pt keep their hand scrunched up, instead of curled around the corner of a table or chair. Didn't anchor vein, which is probably why she missed. Didn't pop tourniquet before removing tube or needle. Pressed down on gauze while removing needle!! Yikes!!
Hi I would like to know werre did you do your internship,I graduated on January and i can't find a place to do my internship. Can you tell me if you know places that i can go to. Thank you.
Tell me about it, genisis. I graduated a month ago and my school told me that it could be up to 2 more months before they get me into an internship. I'm going to see if I can volunteer at a blood drive or something. What state are you in? I'm in California.
What an amazing and beautiful instructor! So calm, so relaxed, so----! Words just fail me. She is that good with these novices. Splendid! I hope for everybody's sake she's still teaching this phlebotomy class. So amazing!
1958boomergirl 10 months ago
the course i took let us draw blood from each other. i liked it. phlebotomy is pretty easy. i think its funny when people get squemish about getting their blood drawn. if the phlebotmoist doesnt fish around and pays attention to what he or she is doing then it usually never hurts.
PINKYPORVIDA 1 year ago
wow you definitely could have stuck yourself cuz u were so busy putting pressure on her hand when thats her responsibility and you have to tell her that while u cover the needle and dispose of it.
AirForceJROTCchick 1 year ago
PPE's but not GOGGLES????
jcsdojo 1 year ago
What a sweet teacher...
robinj920 1 year ago
If you are a student, do you have to have it done to you??????
icemom09 2 years ago
i just had diarhea, thats all i gotta say
sourmanofcoal 2 years ago
hahaha
krypekeeper 2 years ago
yep.
ModderRhu87 2 years ago
For the program I was in, they actually deterred us from drawing on one another. We had clinicals at a local hospital and were only allowed to practice on patients.
tailirineirene 2 years ago
ahhh stop fishing it hurts
dinosaurgrl42 2 years ago
Your teacher is sovpositive. Good job with the hand draw, and over time hopefully you will get really good!
best wishes :)
isisbenny404 2 years ago
Good job!!!! hands arent always the easiest
zachb06 2 years ago
their the practice ones =/ first time i did i screwed up too, like most people.
pushing the butterfly too clsoe to the knuckle and missing the actual :(
VanillaPanama 2 years ago
I could not instruct someone how to adjust the needle currently in MY ARM lol
Gunsnr0sesroks 2 years ago
i wish they let me put the safety cap on with one hand we had to grab the bottem and then pull on the cord to put the safety one when i was in school, the one handed is so much easier though hand veins can be very tricky good job.
DAIGORO14 2 years ago
why are they using a multisample on a hand vein?
unless they wanted a collapsed vein.
Crapone 3 years ago
Is drawing from the hand cause more discomfort than drawing from the arm? If so what is the difference in the discomfort level?q
ldleold 3 years ago
well using the arm is the safest an easist form of collecting blood from a venous vein.the hands,well dorsal(backside of the hand)is more specifically used in geriatic or pediatric patients.or worst casr scenario,if you cant find the vein in the arm.
rougejedi 3 years ago
Ladies and Gentelmen are we not healthe care providers and not children?to all of your comments do you think patients would want to get stuck by you guys,come on man.Healthecare is rteam work Ladies an Gentelman!!!.Not one single persons Glory.Just my couple of cents in this matter.If you are an M.D or a P.A or like myself a CPT1 we all need one another
rougejedi 3 years ago
You can also attach the butterfly hose to a syringe instead of a vacutainer so you're both right. The vacuum from a tube WILL blow weak or spider veins.
Working at an outpatient lab is boringly easy compared to working at a hospital. The hospital I worked at also trained the phlebs to do ABG's also. (Legal in California so don't start the bullshit-we have a CPT-II license that allows us to do arterial punctures).
StringBolt 3 years ago
thats cool i wish i could do that
DAIGORO14 2 years ago
You can use a vacutainer in the hand, provided the veins are big enough to support it, and nobody is going to "take you outside and kick your ass"-especially a nurse. Nurses couldn't draw blood if their lives' depended on it. They think it's below them anyway.
StringBolt 3 years ago
I wipe my ass with your skills and talents.
trainjustleft 3 years ago
LMFAO!!!!one!!! these comments r so fucking funny!!! r these adults arguing???!!! lol i think they need to chill!!! man that was hilarious!!!
TDawg1435 3 years ago 3
That was one of the worst techniques I have ever seen, and I hope this failure didn't continue on in the class, because they would't last a week in a busy clinic or a hospital before their incompetence got them fired.
alabamapianoman 3 years ago
if i have to hear one more person in my line of work say, "i got rollin veins" or " im a hard stick they gotta use a butterfly" im going to commit suicide. so what i do is grab a 20 gage butterfly and they think its small.
CherishWinds 3 years ago
i hate doin butterfly!
Zaryo33 3 years ago
butterflies are for girls... syringes son!!!!
cterror88 3 years ago
syringes are outdated and unsafe and you should only use them in a last resort case I use them with Heroin users.
Smurfberry36 3 years ago
I work in critical care, ER and ICU, and a syringe can be your best friend for people with extremely small, collapsing, blowing, or vericose veins. Why? Because *you* control the back pressure - not a tube. When somebody has been laying in an ICU bed for 3 weeks, and they've changed their IV site multiple times, you mean you're gonna go in and stick a vaccutainer in, dumbass?
The only reason a syringe might be dangerous is that you're too fucking stupid to learn how to use one.
alabamapianoman 3 years ago
I work in critical care, ER and ICU, and a syringe can be your best friend for people with extremely small, collapsing, blowing, or vericose veins. Why? Because *you* control the back pressure - not a tube.
When somebody has been laying in an ICU bed for 3 weeks, and they've changed their IV site multiple times, you mean you're gonna go in and stick a vaccutainer in, dumbass?
The only reason a syringe might be dangerous is that you're too fucking stupid to learn how to use one.
alabamapianoman 3 years ago
Hey I am not fucking stupid...you must be for the lack of training and skill you have...
I work in an area where we draw around 400+ patients a day we use syringes AS A LAST Resort-as the rest of the world see this as a bio-hazard risk that is unacceptable and a properly trained phleb can take blood without one. Maybe that is something that they don't teach you in the USA??? OR am I disillusioned by your skill and techniques? You would not last 5 minutes where I work.
Smurfberry36 3 years ago
Hey, you fucking dipshit piece of Eurotrash.
I am a Registered Nurse, and I have 26 years of phlebotomy experience...I have taught, trained, and certified *hundreds* of students.
I work in the most critical of caregiving services.I want you to explain to me how a syringe is anymore a biohazard than any other collecting device (and back it up with hard data).I mean, that has to be the single most ignorant fucking thing I have ever read in my life.
alabamapianoman 3 years ago
Drawing 400 patients a day is easy in a fucking outpatient clinic.You say I wouldn't last, you inbred, genetic U-turn? I have fucking RUN AND MANAGED busy clinics, like that! You wouldn't be drawing 400 people a day, where I work. I some cases, our patients can take up to 30+ minutes to find acceptable places to draw from People who are missing limbs, on their deathbed, with mulitple IVs *at or below the wrist*!!!
alabamapianoman 3 years ago
You obviously have NO IDEA about the national health service them!! Welcome to socialised medicine! Every man gets a test, not just the ones who can afford it!
Smurfberry36 3 years ago
You go ahead and stick your fucking vaccutainer (and a butterfly is nothing but a vaccutainer with a long tube) in that patients hand or fingers, and one of my nurses would take you outside, kick your idiotic fucking ass, then send you to Human Recources to get fired so fast it would make your head spin. So shut your stupid fucking mouth and stop trying to act like you're some kind of authority on phlebotomy.
alabamapianoman 3 years ago
You are a pathetic little fucking peon at the bottom of the medical profession pay scale, so don't come around here acting like you know what you're talking about, because you don't have a fucking clue about my world where multiple people die every day, and it's my job to make them as comfortable and pain-free as possible. Too bad you don't understand compassion for these people, running your stupid butterfly up in their hands and blowing their veins out.
So STFU, you greasy Eurocunt.
alabamapianoman 3 years ago
And you say you are at the top of the 'social scale?' I would not even come close with the b.s. comments that come from your mouth. I guess you swear at all your patients then? Fucking hell if it takes 30 minutes to draw from a patient then you can't be that good at your job. FYI I still don't think you could hand the NHS-it's not fancy enough for you!!!
Smurfberry36 3 years ago
@alabamapianoman YOU ARE A UNPROFESSIONAL LOSER!!!!! arguing and acting childish over the internet and you are suppose to be a medical professional UGH!!!! i just don't understand people in today's world. you are just in the field for the money UGH!!!! ( no good and trashy)
medicalterrylove2 6 months ago
man u suck, u aint no real SP&P Tech son, LEXINGTON REPRESENT!!!!!!!!!!!
cterror88 3 years ago
she should have already had the tube in the adapter, so when she sees blood in the tube, she just pushes the tube in, instead of searching for the tube and adapter.
myNAMEisBOB 3 years ago
This is personal choice, not everyone teaches it that way. Phlebotomy is down to personal choice and style. They teach the basics its up to you to practice it. Watch 50 Phlebotomist's and all of them will take blood slightly different.
Smurfberry36 3 years ago
A good phlebotomist can take blood without having the tube at the end. You must be really crap if you can't!
Smurfberry36 3 years ago
you look calm in this. It's harder to do then people think.
PhlebotomistPug 4 years ago 5
doesn't that hurt like hell?
BunnyHelper713 4 years ago
She's not folding the wings back before she draws.
hotchick8442003 4 years ago
It's not required to fold the wings back.
Smurfberry36 3 years ago
It sounds like you know nothing about HOW to draw from a patient which has been displayed on here. Yes, you do fold the wings back idiot! How else would you have a good grasp of the needle and puncture the vein. You see how she kept messing with it?? Yes, you do have the tube in the adapter and push it in after you see the flash!! She should've had the tube and adapter ready!!! What planet are you on huh?? *Rolls eyes*
chrissy200384 3 years ago
Actually I am a Phlebotomist who has worked over 14 years!!! There is more than one way to skin a cat!
At the end of the day you don't have to do thing the same as everyone else. It's not required to put the tube in the butterfly before you start either!!!
How many Herion users have you taken blood from on a daily basis? How many do you take in a day? We do well over 350+ each day!!! How dare you try to tell me how to take blood!!!
Smurfberry36 3 years ago
Also I must add that 99.9% of the time one has to fold the wings back, but if you have someone teaching it this way then it's not wrong. It's personal choice. You do have a better grasp on the wings if you fold them back especially on a child, and an elderly person. But just becuase you are AMERICAN does not make what you say right. I am sick of this I am a certified/registered phlebotomist BS. My training is just as good as yours if not the SAME!
Smurfberry36 3 years ago
What the hell does BEING an AMERICAN have anything to do with being a phlebotomist? We are talking about drawing blood from a patient!! I never said that just b/c I'am an American I'am right. Please do not put words in my mouth!! I do not wish to argue. You draw your blood your way, I'll do it my way. Thanks.
chrissy200384 3 years ago
Actually it has everything to do with it it's the I am a certificated and registered phelbo who can do anything and therefore I can do anything cocky attitude. You don't know everything just becuase you say it's done that way does not make it the 'right way' it's a way not the only way!
Smurfberry36 3 years ago
I don't have a cocky attitude! You are the one commenting on everybody's replies. Or should I say the ones that you don't agree with. So what does that make you? This is ridiculous! Yes, there is more then one way. YOUR WAYS are not something I would suggest to somone who is going to draw. I wouldn't be surprised if you poked yourself oneday drawing blood the way you do. It hasn't happen yet...but it will. Anyway, this is my last reply. Good luck to you and have a nice life my dear!
chrissy200384 3 years ago
I would never draw blood this way however I have seen MANY, MANY good PAIN FREE blood draws done without folding the wings back. If you came to another country you too would realize that the American way is NOT THE ONLY WAY!
Smurfberry36 3 years ago
certificated?
cterror88 3 years ago
i just did my internship in Seattle. That was the class put us to different hospital to do it.
patyi 4 years ago
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i like this because i love blood and cutting myself i am looking for away to draw blood but not leave scars.
focusfitnessonline 4 years ago
This is what I'm going to school for, then I'll get my R.N.
cbrown222003 4 years ago
LOL I noticed all that too Manda and I'm just starting at this. Though she did pop the tourni before removing the needle, but.. unfortunately it was after removing the tube so she stilled messed up : ( And talk about vein fishing..OMG!! LOL
odradek81 4 years ago
"Though she did pop the tourni before removing the needle," it is the correct procedure to remove the tourniquet before taking the needle out of the vein. if you were to leave the tourniquet on the arm, and took the needle out- the vein would (for lack of better word) squirt blood.
lightedgiraffe 4 years ago
wowzers
LilMsKissyMissy 5 years ago
Hee hee funny, I just posted my class' "First Stick" which was ages ago. But we worked with Bob the rubber arm. We weren't allowed to bring the cameras in when we started with real arms!
SpiritMedium 5 years ago
I've been a phlebo for 5 years, and watching this made me cringe. Not sure why you'd have the pt keep their hand scrunched up, instead of curled around the corner of a table or chair. Didn't anchor vein, which is probably why she missed. Didn't pop tourniquet before removing tube or needle. Pressed down on gauze while removing needle!! Yikes!!
MandaMann79 5 years ago
sounds like a disaster
lodiedodie 4 years ago
Hi I would like to know werre did you do your internship,I graduated on January and i can't find a place to do my internship. Can you tell me if you know places that i can go to. Thank you.
genisis14 4 years ago
Tell me about it, genisis. I graduated a month ago and my school told me that it could be up to 2 more months before they get me into an internship. I'm going to see if I can volunteer at a blood drive or something. What state are you in? I'm in California.
StringBolt 4 years ago
Yes I live in California and i
'm trying very hard to find a place to do my internsship. Can you valunteer even you havent done your internship.
genisis14 4 years ago
this is what we do in school
lodiedodie 5 years ago