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Briana Sigmon

Hickory,NC

Summary


Accomplished and energetic phlebotomist, looking to obtain a position in a healthcare facility such as hospitals, clinics, and doctor offices as a phlebotomist, where my skills and knowledge will be enhanced and utilized.

Professional healthcare worker with robust experience in drawing blood and handling specimens. Known for strong team collaboration and adaptability to changing needs, ensuring efficient and reliable service. Skilled in venipuncture, patient care, and maintaining sterile environments, with focus on achieving results and high standards. Dependable and prepared to contribute to patient care and diagnostic accuracy.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

PST Phlebotomist

LabCorp
10.2023 - Current
  • Use Touch (EMR)
  • Enhanced patient experience through compassionate care and communication during blood draw procedures.
  • Labeled transfer tubes and followed exact directions for handling and storing specimens for transport.
  • Maintained a high level of accuracy in labeling and tracking specimens, ensuring proper testing and timely results.
  • Centrifuged blood samples as outlined in clinical protocols.
  • Completed proper sanitation and cleaning of equipment and work areas between patients.
  • Improved patient comfort by efficiently drawing blood samples using various techniques such as venipuncture and capillary puncture.
  • Assembled tourniquets, needles, and blood collection devices to prepare work trays.
  • Packaged and shipped specimens to central lab daily.
  • Collaborated with medical professionals to ensure accurate test orders and appropriate sample collection methods were used.
  • Process billing information and collect payments when required
  • Prepare all collected specimens for testing and analysis
  • Maintain patient and specimen information logs
  • Provide superior customer service to all patients
  • Administrative and clerical duties as necessary
  • Travel to additional sites when needed

Phlebotomy Instructor

Catawba Valley Community College
08.2023 - Current
  • Deliver instruction and support student success
  • Develop course syllabi, outlines, and lesson plans for curriculum courses assigned
  • Review and select appropriate textbooks and instructional materials and media for the classes to be taught
  • Develops lectures, classroom activities, laboratory, hands-on exercises, and/or actual work site exercises for students to participate and learn
  • Coordinate lab and clinical schedules
  • Monitor and ensure lab supplies are available for lab classes
  • Coordinate clinical schedules with partnering healthcare facilities, preceptors, and students
  • Monitors and records student progress in courses
  • Administers tests or other evaluation methods to students; grades and gives feedback on exercises, homework assignments, and tests
  • Keeps records of student attendance
  • Each student learns and understands the Order of Draw
  • Students learn how to identify patients
  • Students learn how to perform successful venipunctures
  • Assign homework and projects

Phlebotomist

UNC Blue Ridge
09.2023 - 12.2023
  • Enhanced patient experience through compassionate care and communication during blood draw procedures.
  • Labeled transfer tubes and followed exact directions for handling and storing specimens for transport.
  • Maintained a high level of accuracy in labeling and tracking specimens, ensuring proper testing and timely results.
  • Centrifuged blood samples as outlined in clinical protocols.
  • Completed proper sanitation and cleaning of equipment and work areas between patients.
  • Excelled in high-pressure situations, maintaining composure and professionalism during peak hours and emergency scenarios.
  • Stocked phlebotomy cart or carrier with appropriate supplies.
  • Assembled tourniquets, needles, and blood collection devices to prepare work trays.
  • Collect blood samples from patients
  • Order of Draw- BD
  • Practice proper patient identification, especially when working on hospital floors
  • Label vials with patient names and dates
  • Start morning rounds at 2am and collect every patient
  • Every blood transfusion patient gets a blood bank bracelet
  • Decipher the best method for drawing blood depending on the specific patient
  • Transport all specimen samples to a nearby laboratory
  • Centrifuge blood samples and load blood culture machine
  • Expect to work with many patients varying in age and health status
  • Be friendly, courteous and sympathetic when it comes to working with patients
  • Always keep phlebotomy cart or station well-organized
  • Always practice infection control standards when working with patients and equipment
  • Perform necessary communication (via fax or phone) between Lab and Physician/Provider offices to ensure testing is ordered and reported correctly
  • Process reference lab specimens for pickup
  • Receive and process specimens
  • Evaluate, reschedule and recollect unacceptable specimens
  • Cleaning and maintenance of phlebotomy work area
  • Storage and inventory of phlebotomy supplies
  • Each STEMI, Code Stroke or trauma: always collect a rainbow
  • Code Trauma Yellow and Red
  • All direct admins get a rainbow of tubes
  • All new birthing patients get: SST brown, Light Green, and two EDTA tubes
  • All psych patients get a full rainbow
  • Use EPIC to receive, print labels, edit, and inquiry about samples collected from nurses, doctor, or phlebotomist
  • Use Rover handheld to see what each floor or department needs blood samples collected for what patient

Phlebotomist, Laboratory Inventory, Head Trainer

Catawba Valley Medical Center Hospital
06.2021 - 08.2023
  • Collect blood samples from patients
  • Practice proper patient identification, especially when working on hospital floors
  • Label vials with patient names and dates
  • Decipher the best method for drawing blood depending on the specific patient
  • Transport all specimen samples to a nearby laboratory
  • Centrifuge blood samples, depending on if this is allowed in the state you are working in
  • Expect to work with a large number of patients varying in age and health status
  • Be friendly, courteous and sympathetic when it comes to working with patients
  • Keep phlebotomy cart or station well-organized at all times
  • Practice infection control standards at all times when working with patients and equipment
  • Order of draw
  • Departments: Microbiology, Coagulation, Blood Bank, Hematology, Serology, Chemistry
  • Clot Tubes (Serum): SST, Plain Red, Gold
  • Non-clot Tubes (Plasma): Blood Cultures, Light Blue, Light Green, Green, Lavender, Gray
  • Answer incoming phone calls and greet customers in Lab reception area
  • Enhanced patient experience through compassionate care and communication during blood draw procedures.
  • Perform necessary communication (via fax or phone) between Lab and Physician/Provider offices to ensure testing is ordered and reported correctly
  • Labeled transfer tubes and followed exact directions for handling and storing specimens for transport.
  • Process reference lab specimens for pickup
  • Maintained a high level of accuracy in labeling and tracking specimens, ensuring proper testing and timely results.
  • Receive and process specimens
  • Centrifuged blood samples as outlined in clinical protocols.
  • Evaluate, reschedule and recollect unacceptable specimens
  • Stocked phlebotomy cart or carrier with appropriate supplies.
  • Cleaning and maintenance of phlebotomy work area
  • Demonstrated adaptability by effectively performing blood draws on diverse patient populations, including pediatric, geriatric, and challenging cases.
  • Storage and inventory of phlebotomy supplies
  • Log each inventory supplies
  • Train and teach each new phlebotomy employee
  • Each STEMI, Code Stroke or trauma: always collect a rainbow
  • All direct admins get a rainbow of tubes
  • All new birthing patients get: SST brown, Light Green, and two EDTA tubes
  • All psych patients get a full rainbow
  • Use Meditech Expenses Live to receive, print labels, edit, inquiry about samples collected from nurses, doctor, or phlebotomist
  • Use MobiLab handheld to see what each floor or department needs blood samples collected for what patient

Donor Services Specialist II Phlebotomist

OneBlood
04.2019 - 05.2021
  • Order of draw
  • Obtain medical history and vitals from donors and/or patients
  • Managed high-volume workloads, prioritizing tasks to ensure timely completion and quality results.
  • Identify eligible donors for automated collection procedures
  • Performs phlebotomy, collection and automated collection to collect blood, platelets and plasma
  • Recognize, troubleshoots and initiates action in repair of apheresis equipment to maintain proper working condition
  • Display excellent customer service and professionalism towards all customers
  • Recruits potential apheresis and bone marrow donors
  • Travel to additional sites when needed
  • Ensure supplies is ordered every week
  • Ensure to find coverage if someone calls out
  • Administrative and clerical duties as necessary
  • Maintain donor and specimen information logs
  • Perform data entry of donor information in an accurate and timely manner
  • Perform blood collections by venipuncture and capillary techniques for all age groups
  • Enter donation prescription for donors who have a blood condition, blood disease or treatment: Hereditary Hemochromatosis, Hemochromatosis, Testosterone Treatment, Polycythemia Secondary, Erythrocytosis Secondary, Polycythemia Vera
  • Platelet Apheresis Collection takes 2 hours and 30 minutes, the platelets collected will go to cancer patients while the plasma goes to burn victims or COVID-19 patients
  • Cleaning and maintenance of phlebotomy work area
  • Storage and inventory of phlebotomy supplies
  • Perform necessary communication (via fax or phone) between Donors, Management, Donor Services Support, Record Review, Recruitment and Physician/Provider offices to ensure testing is ordered and reported correctly
  • Expect to work with a large number of donors varying in age and health status
  • Be friendly, courteous and sympathetic when it comes to working with all donors
  • Help donors set up donor portals, appointments, rescheduling, find a center or blood mobile
  • Perform daily quality control for all equipment
  • Enter donation prescription for Autologous donors who want to donate their own blood for a surgery
  • Enter donation prescription for Directed donors who donate for relatives
  • Ensure to collect a Small Purple 6mL Tube for all Platelet Apheresis donation to obtain a platelet count of each donor
  • Package platelets at room temperature on gel packs and absorbent towels
  • Package tubes room temperature, blood and plasma on ice
  • Ensure all documents are reviewed and scanned after each shift such as: Donor Information 714’s, Prescriptions, Donor Adverse Events, Minor Consent, pDHQ’S, Therapeutic Questionnaire, Amicus Data Sheet, Downtime Packets, QC Form, Non-protocol Test From, Pre-count for platelet

Furniture Sewing Inspector

Southern Furniture Company Co
05.2017 - 04.2019
  • Inspect all sewing for a thread pull
  • Tie welt
  • Combine all arms
  • Check all top stitch work
  • Take certain arms to baseball stitch
  • Put top stitch work over the buggy
  • Take all Hot Rush orders to upholstery
  • Roll all velvet and leather
  • Scan order tickets
  • Take ottomans to Cushing department
  • Take all mistake fabric back to Cutting department for recut
  • Make sure the welt arms, boarders, back, seat, and extra fabric together and tied to be scanned
  • Turn cushions and pillows inside out
  • Put cushions to assigned day by the number on ticket
  • Take off the pillow number on batch papers for each week

Shadowing

Catawba County Public Health: CVMC Maternity Services
10.2018 - 10.2018
  • Order of draw, Additives, Inverts: Blood Cultures (Aerobic & Anaerobic) (Growth Media) (Invert 8-10 times), Light Blue (Na Citrate) (Invert 3-4 times), Plain Red (None) (0 times), SST (Clot Activator) (5 times), Light Green/Green (Heparin) (8-10 times), Lavender/Pink (
  • EDTA
  • Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid) (8-10 times), Gray (Sodium Fluoride & Potassium Oxalate) (8-10 times)
  • Departments: Microbiology, Coagulation, Blood Bank, Hematology, Serology, Chemistry
  • Clot Tubes (Serum): SST, Plain Red, Gold
  • Non-clot Tubes (Plasma): Blood Cultures, Light Blue, Light Green, Green, Lavender, Pink, Gray
  • Blood Cells: White Blood Cells (Lymphocytes, Monocytes, Basophils, Neutrophils, Eosinophils), Red Blood Cells (Bone Marrow) (Live about 120 days), Platelets (Bone Marrow), Capillaries
  • 3 Common Veins: Antecubital or Median Cubital, Cephalic, Basilic
  • Centrifuge blood samples, depending on if this is allowed in the state you are working in
  • Expect to work with a large number of patients varying in age and health status
  • Be friendly, courteous and sympathetic when it comes to working with patients
  • Label vials with patient names and dates
  • Decipher the best method for drawing blood depending on the specific patient
  • Answer incoming phone calls and greet customers in Lab reception area
  • Perform necessary communication (via fax or phone) between Lab and Physician/Provider offices to ensure testing is ordered and reported correctly
  • Process reference lab specimens for pickup
  • Receive and process specimens
  • Evaluate, reschedule and recollect unacceptable specimens
  • Cleaning and maintenance of phlebotomy work area
  • Storage and inventory of phlebotomy supplies

Apparel Sales Associate/ Cashier

Academy Sports & Outdoors
08.2016 - 03.2017
  • Scan items and ensure pricing is correct
  • Greet customers and ask if they want paper or plastic
  • Take coupons and scan correctly
  • Dispense correct change
  • Take money in the form of cash, credit card, or check
  • Ask for one or two forms of ID to confirm identity
  • Validate checks
  • Issue receipts, refunds, and credits
  • Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change
  • Change receipt paper as needed
  • Resolve amount discrepancies
  • Bag items carefully
  • Weigh items
  • Clean up the checkout area with damp cloth and disinfectant
  • Fold clothes and help customers with selection
  • Complete assigned grid

Server/Housekeeper/Kitchen Helper/Café Server

Holiday Retirement
11.2014 - 08.2016
  • Carry linens, towels, toilet items, and cleaning supplies, using wheeled carts
  • Clean rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards are met
  • Disinfect equipment and supplies, using germicides or steam-operated sterilizers
  • Wash dishes and clean kitchens, cooking utensils, and silverware
  • Empty wastebaskets, empty and clean ashtrays, and transport other trash and waste to disposal areas
  • Observe precautions required to protect hotel and guest property and report damage, theft, and found articles for supervisors
  • Clean rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies, using vacuum cleaners and shampooers
  • Keep storage areas and carts well-stocked, clean, and tidy
  • Prepare food items, such as sandwiches, salads, soups, or beverages
  • Remove trays and stack dishes for return to the kitchen after meals are finished
  • Wash windows, walls, ceilings, and woodwork, waxing and polishing as necessary
  • Prepare rooms for meetings and arrange decorations, media equipment, and furniture for social or business functions
  • Place clean dishes, utensils, or cooking equipment in storage areas
  • Maintain kitchen work areas, equipment, or utensils in clean and orderly condition
  • Stock supplies, such as food or utensils, in serving stations, cupboards, refrigerators, or salad bars
  • Sweep or scrub floors
  • Clean garbage cans with water or steam
  • Sort and remove trash, placing it in designated pickup areas
  • Monitor food distribution, ensuring that meals are delivered to the correct recipients and that guidelines, such as those for special diets, are followed
  • Take food orders and relay orders to kitchens or serving counters so they can be filled
  • Provide world-class customer service by delivering the four core service principles of the cafe: provide timely and friendly cafe service, upsell, maintain product presentation standards, and maintain cafe cleanliness
  • Prepare and serve drinks and food in accordance with health code and cafe standards
  • Perform all support tasks in the cafe, including but not necessarily limited to baking, cleaning cases and equipment, and restocking displays, in accordance with cafe standards

Education

Phlebotomist -

CVCC
Hickory, NC
04.2017

Diploma - High School Diploma

Saint Stephens High School
Hickory, NC
06.2016

Skills

  • Active Listening & Coordination
  • Cash Handling Skills
  • Organizational skills and detail oriented
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Speaking & Service Orientation
  • Time Management & Critical Thinking
  • Complex Problem solving
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Quality Control Analysis
  • Communications and Media
  • Operation Monitoring
  • Google Docs, Lumin PDF, DocHub- PDF Sign and Edit
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Ability to multitask with keyboarding and phone
  • EMR Systems- Touch, Meditech, Athena, Epic
  • Venipuncture, Capillary puncture
  • Order of draw
  • Patient care & confidentiality
  • Specimen handling
  • Sample and specimen collection
  • Butterfly needle technique
  • HIPAA compliance
  • Blood culture collection
  • Data entry
  • Quality and Infection control
  • Medical records management
  • Medical office administration
  • Medical terminology
  • Anatomy and physiology
  • Therapeutic phlebotomy

Certification

  • Adjunct Instructor: Phlebotomy -Catawba Valley Community College August 2023
  • Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) - American Society of Phlebotomy Technicians (ASPT).
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification - American Heart Association or Red Cross
  • Basic Life Support Instructor (BLSI) – American Heart Association.

Timeline

PST Phlebotomist

LabCorp
10.2023 - Current

Phlebotomist

UNC Blue Ridge
09.2023 - 12.2023

Phlebotomy Instructor

Catawba Valley Community College
08.2023 - Current

Phlebotomist, Laboratory Inventory, Head Trainer

Catawba Valley Medical Center Hospital
06.2021 - 08.2023

Donor Services Specialist II Phlebotomist

OneBlood
04.2019 - 05.2021

Shadowing

Catawba County Public Health: CVMC Maternity Services
10.2018 - 10.2018

Furniture Sewing Inspector

Southern Furniture Company Co
05.2017 - 04.2019

Apparel Sales Associate/ Cashier

Academy Sports & Outdoors
08.2016 - 03.2017

Server/Housekeeper/Kitchen Helper/Café Server

Holiday Retirement
11.2014 - 08.2016

Phlebotomist -

CVCC

Diploma - High School Diploma

Saint Stephens High School

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