Phlebotomy Research Paper

When an average person with no phlebotomy training think of phlebotomy they automatically think of drawing blood but it is more to it than that. When someone with training on phlebotomy thinks of phlebotomy they automatically think about things such as labeling samples, anticoagulants, tubes and the departments they go into and etc. My paper is going to talk about the things that an average person does not know about phlebotomy. Phlebotomy is the practice of drawing blood from patients and taking the blood specimens to the laboratory to prepare for testing. As a Phlebotomy technician you play a very important role in the process of getting results back to the doctor. Phlebotomy technician does the collection and analysis of blood samples (Basically …show more content…
The Coagulation Department tests and measures your blood’s ability to clot and the amount of time it takes to do so. The RPR (Syphilis) is the only one of the few test that goes to serology. The serology department test for blood-borne pathogens, including HIV and hepatitis B, and analyze blood specimens for diseases of public health significance, e.g., vaccine preventable diseases, diseases transmitted from animals to humans and mosquito-borne diseases, They also help investigate disease outbreaks significant to public health, and analyze tissue specimens from animals suspected of exposing humans to rabies and plague. The chemistry department has the biggest part in the lab because the lab techs and a lot more test to process than the rest of the departments; generally the Chemistry department is concerned with analysis of bodily fluids for diagnostic. The chemistry department tubes are marble or gold but can be put into a Red tube if gold or marble is not available. When a phlebotomist is drawing blood it is a order of draw you must follow, depending on the place you are working at they will decide which of the two order of draws you will …show more content…
When you are at a patient bedside you need to make sure you follow the order of draw or your results will not be accurate. When you finish your collection you the label will be printed for you so all you have to put is time date and initials unless the printer is down and then you have to fill out the tube completely with The person name, Hospital number, time, date, initial and then you send it to the lab if it does not have all five labels the lab will reject it along with some other reasons like the sample begin to go through the hemolysis process, its clotted, the tube is not full, the results on the patient are strange, drug levels are to low or too high or just a simple delta check. The lab has a reputation to uphold so it’s a lot of things you have to follow such as an introduction when you walk into a patient room you should introduce yourself in a professional manner. The first thirty seconds of your visit tells the patient if they want you to stick them or