Jenny Magee
Pasadena,Md
Summary
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
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Phlebotomist
Quest Diagnostics
Pasadena Md
05.2018 - Current
- 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.
- Reduced contamination risks by strictly adhering to infection control protocols and maintaining a clean work environment.
- Demonstrated adaptability by effectively performing blood draws on diverse patient populations, including pediatric, geriatric, and challenging cases.
- Stocked phlebotomy cart or carrier with appropriate supplies.
- Established and maintained positive working relationships with patients, staff and clinical personnel to build trust and camaraderie.
- Improved patient comfort by efficiently drawing blood samples using various techniques such as venipuncture and capillary puncture.
- Handled insurance verification tasks using Software and Software to validate patient insurance information.
- Developed and implemented strategies to improve phlebotomy processes.
- Performed laboratory tests to assist physicians in diagnosis.
- Provided guidance and support to laboratory personnel.
- Validated blood and specimen collection orders, alerting nurses, or physicians of discrepancies between order and nursing station logs.
- Participated in quality assurance and competency assessment initiatives.
- Monitored supply levels and placed orders for laboratory supplies.
- Reviewed and processed requisitions for laboratory tests.
- Spoke with patient to gather information for lab records, reduce fear, or anxiety and optimize cooperation.
Phlebotomist
Sma
05.2011 - 05.2018
- Labeled transfer tubes and followed exact directions for handling and storing specimens for transport.
- Centrifuged blood samples as outlined in clinical protocols.
- Stocked phlebotomy cart or carrier with appropriate supplies.
- Used personal protective equipment correctly to protect coworkers and patients.
- Enhanced patient experience by performing blood draws quickly and efficiently.
- Ensured proper identification and documentation of samples, significantly reducing instances of mislabeling.
- Improved patient comfort and trust with compassionate communication and professional bedside manner.
- Trained new phlebotomists in proper blood collection techniques and safety protocols, elevating overall quality of care.
Phlebotomist
LabCorp
05.2010 - 05.2012
- Stocked phlebotomy cart or carrier with appropriate supplies.
- Demonstrated adaptability by effectively performing blood draws on diverse patient populations, including pediatric, geriatric, and challenging cases.
- Established and maintained positive working relationships with patients, staff and clinical personnel to build trust and camaraderie.
- Improved patient comfort by efficiently drawing blood samples using various techniques such as venipuncture and capillary puncture.
Phlebotomist
Clm
Pennsylvania Furnace, PA
05.2008 - 05.2010
- Maintained a high level of accuracy in labeling and tracking specimens, ensuring proper testing and timely results.
- Labeled transfer tubes and followed exact directions for handling and storing specimens for transport.
- 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.
- Used personal protective equipment correctly to protect coworkers and patients.
Phlebotomist
Maryland Primary Care Physicians
Pasadena, MD
05.2000 - 05.2008
- 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.
Medical Assistan/phlebotomist T
Dr Kaplan
Glen Burnie, MD
05.1995 - 05.2000
- 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.
- Excelled in high-pressure situations, maintaining composure and professionalism during peak hours and emergency scenarios.
- Completed proper sanitation and cleaning of equipment and work areas between patients.
- Reduced contamination risks by strictly adhering to infection control protocols and maintaining a clean work environment.
- Stocked phlebotomy cart or carrier with appropriate supplies.
- Tracked collected specimens by initialing, dating, and noting times of collection.
- Demonstrated adaptability by effectively performing blood draws on diverse patient populations, including pediatric, geriatric, and challenging cases.
- Established and maintained positive working relationships with patients, staff and clinical personnel to build trust and camaraderie.
- 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.
- Increased patient satisfaction rates through consistent delivery of professional phlebotomy services tailored to individual needs.
- Used personal protective equipment correctly to protect coworkers and patients.
Education
Nursing Assistant -
Center of Applied Technology North
Severn, MD1994
Northeast High
Pasadena, MD06.1993
Skills
- Venipuncture
- Order of draw
- Patient care
- Specimen handling
- Butterfly needle technique
- HIPAA compliance
- Patient confidentiality
- Venipuncture expertise
- Blood collection techniques
- Specimen labeling procedures
- Capillary puncture
- Data entry
- Specimen preparation
- Infection control
- Paperwork processing
- Pediatric phlebotomy
- Geriatric phlebotomy
- Skin puncture
Timeline
Phlebotomist
Quest Diagnostics
05.2018 - Current
Phlebotomist
Sma
05.2011 - 05.2018
Phlebotomist
LabCorp
05.2010 - 05.2012
Phlebotomist
Clm
05.2008 - 05.2010
Phlebotomist
Maryland Primary Care Physicians
05.2000 - 05.2008
Medical Assistan/phlebotomist T
Dr Kaplan
05.1995 - 05.2000
Nursing Assistant -
Center of Applied Technology North
Northeast High