Lancelot Blake

• Reduced patient anxiety through compassionate communication and expert venipuncture techniques.
• Spoke with patient to gather information for lab records, reduce fear, or anxiety and optimize cooperation.
• Continuously updated phlebotomy knowledge through professional development courses, ensuring best practices were upheld.
• Upheld HIPAA compliance through careful management of confidential patient records and lab results.
• Established and maintained positive working relationships with patients, staff and clinical personnel to build trust and camaraderie.
• Developed and implemented strategies to improve phlebotomy processes.

• Provided guidance and support to laboratory personnel.
• Tracked collected specimens by initialing, dating, and noting times of collection.
• Validated blood and specimen collection orders, alerting nurses, or physicians of discrepancies between order and nursing station logs.
• Mitigated risk factors within the lab setting by strictly adhering to OSHA regulations regarding biohazardous waste disposal.
• Participated in quality assurance and competency assessment initiatives.

*Spoke with patient to gather information for lab records, reduce fear, or anxiety and optimize cooperation.

• Continuously updated phlebotomy knowledge through professional development courses, ensuring best practices were upheld.
• Upheld HIPAA compliance through careful management of confidential patient records and lab results.
• Developed and implemented strategies to improve phlebotomy processes.
• Assisted in training and onboarding new phlebotomists.
• Monitored supply levels and placed orders for laboratory supplies.
• Collected blood samples in accordance with laboratory protocols and regulations.
• Established and maintained positive working relationships with patients, staff and clinical personnel to build trust and camaraderie
• Floated between 7 different sites