Dulce Useche De Mujica
DELAND,Florida
Summary
Competent Phlebotomy Technician with experience working in high-volume, fast-paced hospital settings. Highly knowledgeable in routine blood drawing procedures and using vacutainer tubes, tourniquets, syringes, butterfly needles and straight needles. Committed to maintaining highest quality standards when collecting, labeling and processing samples and specimens.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Phlebotomist/Receptionist
Halifax Health Medical Center
Daytona Beach, Florida
06.2021 - Current
- Completed proper sanitation and cleaning of equipment and work areas between patients.
- Labeled transfer tubes and followed exact directions for handling and storing specimens for transport.
- Used personal protective equipment correctly to protect coworkers and patients.
- Stocked phlebotomy cart or carrier with appropriate supplies.
- Tracked collected specimens by initialing, dating and noting times of collection.
- Organized daily work based on collection priority.
- Packaged and shipped specimens to central lab daily.
- Promoted mission, vision and values of organization and trained new clinical staff in phlebotomy procedures.
- Obtained blood specimens by performing venipunctures and finger sticks [Number] times per day.
- Drew blood from veins by vacuum tube, syringe or butterfly venipuncture methods.
- Collected blood samples using vacutainer tubes, tourniquets, syringes, butterfly needles, and straight needles.
- Performed bedside tests like bleeding time tests and entered results into patient charts.
- Protected patients by following infection control, sharps disposal and biohazardous waste disposal procedures.
- Spoke with patient to gather information for lab records, reduce fear or anxiety and optimize cooperation.
- Assembled tourniquets, needles and blood collection devices to prepare work trays.
- Validated blood and specimen collection orders, alerting nurses or physicians of discrepancies between order and nursing station logs.
- Maintained exam rooms by ordering supplies, transporting specimens, washing and packing instruments and changing solutions.
- Conducted venipuncture and other CT procedures.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Medical Doctor
Medical University of The Andes
Merida, Venezuela.01.1988
Skills
- Disposal Procedures
- Blood Culturing
- Therapeutic Phlebotomy
- Heel Sticks
- Biohazard Policy Compliance
- Equipment and Instrument Sterilizatoin
- Vacuum Tube and Syringe Use
- Hemoglobin Testing
- Chronic Disorders
- Epic Software
- Electronic Medical Record Software
- Butterfly Venipuncture
- Interval Testing
- Sharps Collection
- HIPAA Guidelines
- Phlebotomy Procedures
- Patient Relations
- Blood Alcohol Testing
- Biohazard Waste Disposal
- Specimen Transportation
- Reading Comprehension
- Patient Confidentiality
- Sanitation and Sterilization
Timeline
Phlebotomist/Receptionist
Halifax Health Medical Center
06.2021 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Medical Doctor
Medical University of The Andes
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