Man, if today isn't the most exciting day of clinicals, I don't know what is. I've drawn a single tube from a single patient. We've only had, like, 5 people come in in the first place, 3 of which were port draws that we don't do and one of which was a T&S that I'm not allowed to do, so it's not like I've just been seeing a bunch of people that I decided were too hard for me to stick.
So, a while back, I took a small, self-paced electrical safety course as part of the whole phlebotomy thing because, you know, might be useful. I DID NOT EXPECT TO NEED IT. And, yet, a colleague nearly set the place on fire trying to unplug something. We still have no clue why it got all sparky, and yet, it did. Remember, kids: Workplace safety training exists for a reason!
You know, honestly, April fools peaked my third grade year when my classmates and I hatched a plan to prank a classmate by pretending to prank each other just to get him scared of being pranked, but not actually pranking him. This whole holiday should have just been called off after that. It wasn't going to get any better than that.
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In today's episode of "Weird stories from clinicals"...
Okay, I'm not sure what was better, him or the woman who insisted her mom stick around as long as possible on her discharge day so she could watch a show on a channel she didn't get at home. Those two were just great in general. Neither me nor the nurse in there could hold it together. Training never prepared me for this, and definitely not hearing a patient calling a person on TV a slut.
In today's episode of "Weird stories from clinicals", "Aura's been to jail?!β
Yeah, we had a guy who, as we were leaving, told me "I think I know you from somewhere." After spending a minute trying to put it together, he went "I think we was in jail together." I had to hold it together. The last thing I was expecting to hear was that someone knew me from jail. After, the nurses in the hall asked if I'd been to jail. "No. No, I've not." My training never prepared me for this.
Also, yeah. Highlight of the day was definitely the histology guys. Find yourself a job that you get as excited about as they do theirs, because dang. If you aren't excitedly showing off what you do to everyone that comes in, is it really worth doing?
Also, hey, by the way, if you're a nurse sending samples to the lab, please label them correctly. If you don't know how, ask us. We had to trash a urine sample because it had absolutely zero info on it and had to call for extra info on a bunch more. Ugh.
If you need me to say more, I do also have an entire blog post on the subject:
So, as part of the whole phlebotomy thing, I've studied a bit about lymphocytes, and I must say, this XKCD about lymphs is absolute 100% accurate πβ
Thoughts on outpatient phlebotomy
And that doesn't surprise me. If I remember the phlebotomy 1 job openings their only requirements are customer service experience. Makes me wonder how much training they give those who come in with none when they're telling my classmates to forget their training. Seriously, like, that might just be the biggest revelation of this course: most outpatient phlebotomists likely have next to no training. Yikes.
Phlebotomist. Cyberwitch. Artist. Fighter. Accidental breaker of computers.
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(In practice, it's been a while, but who knows?)