Med Techs: Do you draw from insulted when those regard as you are a nurse or only a phlebotomist?
Where I work, we all wear scrubs and our hospital name tag. We don't wear our lab coats out of the lab due to contamination issues.
So when we're out of the lab (the rare time others DO actually see us) people assume we're nurses.
To me, it's kindly of annoying considering that 1) I have more technical and analytical knowledge than that and 2) In lingo of LVN's or LPN's, and phlebotomists, I have more school than that as well.
So does it bother you to be call a nurse or a phlebotomist?
Answers:
I take offense to that "just a phlebotomist" sentiment.
No, I don't really care what impulsive people think of me at the hospital....
I work in a smaller hospital (About 80 Beds and adjectives the options larger hospitals have to offer) as a technologist and during my schooling, I was a lab assistant (phlebotomist) in that for 3 years. Right now I am only 22 and being a phlebotomist be a great feeling because of the age that I was and the job responsibilities that I have. The only people that accidentally called me a nurse or asked me if i be on, were the patients that I would draw from. I would just tell them that I'm not a nurse and that I am "from the lab". Now that I am a technologist (we still lend a hand the phlebs. in the morning for morning pick-up) and some patients will still ask if i'm a nurse and I just tell them (with for a moment laugh while saying "no") "No, I am a laboratory technologist". But I guess the reason for me not person insulted is because of my age. I know that I have accomplished a big obstacle within taking the MT program because it's not the easiest thing out there to do, all the while I am the youngest human being who works in our lab. Source(s): Where I work, phlebotomists take blood, process specimens, run urines on the urinalysis machines, set up specimens in micro, so ecg's, er pick up and process specimens that we question paper from private labs. So therefore, next time ur called "a moment ago a phleb." by whoever, they are clearly too naive to even know what they do. Hell, before all this, I have no idea where my blood went when ever it be taken at a clinic.
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So when we're out of the lab (the rare time others DO actually see us) people assume we're nurses.
To me, it's kindly of annoying considering that 1) I have more technical and analytical knowledge than that and 2) In lingo of LVN's or LPN's, and phlebotomists, I have more school than that as well.
So does it bother you to be call a nurse or a phlebotomist?
Answers:
I take offense to that "just a phlebotomist" sentiment.
No, I don't really care what impulsive people think of me at the hospital....
I work in a smaller hospital (About 80 Beds and adjectives the options larger hospitals have to offer) as a technologist and during my schooling, I was a lab assistant (phlebotomist) in that for 3 years. Right now I am only 22 and being a phlebotomist be a great feeling because of the age that I was and the job responsibilities that I have. The only people that accidentally called me a nurse or asked me if i be on, were the patients that I would draw from. I would just tell them that I'm not a nurse and that I am "from the lab". Now that I am a technologist (we still lend a hand the phlebs. in the morning for morning pick-up) and some patients will still ask if i'm a nurse and I just tell them (with for a moment laugh while saying "no") "No, I am a laboratory technologist". But I guess the reason for me not person insulted is because of my age. I know that I have accomplished a big obstacle within taking the MT program because it's not the easiest thing out there to do, all the while I am the youngest human being who works in our lab. Source(s): Where I work, phlebotomists take blood, process specimens, run urines on the urinalysis machines, set up specimens in micro, so ecg's, er pick up and process specimens that we question paper from private labs. So therefore, next time ur called "a moment ago a phleb." by whoever, they are clearly too naive to even know what they do. Hell, before all this, I have no idea where my blood went when ever it be taken at a clinic.
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