Hello, how is evreyone doing 🙂 I would like to take this course where I will become a certified phlebotomist, someone told me it takes a couple of months and then I have to take some kind of board exam afterwards....but I would like to know after I go through this class and get certified as a phlebotomist will there be a job as a phlebotomist waiting for me, if I apply at a hospital will I automatically get a job and not have to wait a month or more for a job to be available???
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Being certified..does it matter???
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Questions about becoming a phlebotomist are not Pre-Allo specific. As such, this thread is moved to Medical Backgrounds/Clinicians. Pre-Allo students can read and post in Clinicians as well.
No. Most hospitals don't give a flying rat's ass one way or the other. The only place it would matter would be the rare state (California I think is one, but don't hold me to that) that requires it.
I worked as a phleb for several years and never took a formal class. It was all on the job training.
If there aren't opening, there aren't openings. Most labs have high turnover (because it's a thankless job for the most part, although the pay isn't bad) so your best bet is to check the local hospitals to see if they have postings. Chances are good at least one of them will.
However, if your posting record is any indication of your level of intelligence, organization and maturity, may God have mercy on anyone who has you doing anything to them.
I worked as a phleb for several years and never took a formal class. It was all on the job training.
If there aren't opening, there aren't openings. Most labs have high turnover (because it's a thankless job for the most part, although the pay isn't bad) so your best bet is to check the local hospitals to see if they have postings. Chances are good at least one of them will.
However, if your posting record is any indication of your level of intelligence, organization and maturity, may God have mercy on anyone who has you doing anything to them.
No. Most hospitals don't give a flying rat's ass one way or the other. The only place it would matter would be the rare state (California I think is one, but don't hold me to that) that requires it.
I worked as a phleb for several years and never took a formal class. It was all on the job training.
If there aren't opening, there aren't openings. Most labs have high turnover (because it's a thankless job for the most part, although the pay isn't bad) so your best bet is to check the local hospitals to see if they have postings. Chances are good at least one of them will.
However, if your posting record is any indication of your level of intelligence, organization and maturity, may God have mercy on anyone who has you doing anything to them.
true dat.
I have been a phlebotomist for more than 2 years now. First, for the Red Cross, who trained me from scratch. Now for a big teaching hosp. in the blood donor center. I currently draw blood from blood donors, autologous blood donors, therapeutic phlebs. hemachromatosis/P. Vera and such. I also run apheresis procedures of all types with the exception of ones where blood products (FFP and RBCs) are the replacement fluid. I stick big needles, small needles and I.V.s with no certification whatesoever.
