Skilled Phlebotomist with more than 21/2 years of experience in fast-paced working from hospital to a doctors office. Expert in quickly and accurately collecting specimens using variety of venipuncture and capillary puncture techniques. Exceptional bedside manner and adept in easing patients' fears or anxieties.
I work as a Phlebotomist drawing blood and print orders in a very large doctors office and communicating with patients nurses/ doctors.
Very compassionate and sympathetic dealing with sick patients and their needs.
Excellent venipuncture and capillary skill of technique drawing blood on patients of all ages.
Very experienced in Printing orders making sure labs are done in houses or sent out to RML or DLO lab.
Collected blood samples using vacutainer tubes, tourniquets, syringes, butterfly needles, and straight needles such as 21g 22g 18g 23g needles also knowing what test goes in certain tubes such as
Bmps Cmps, Lavendor top tubes Troponin tubes, INR's, Tiger Tops tubes etc....
Educated on Hippa rules an regulations at all times when working with patients and practicing following blood borne pathogens guidelines.
Protected patients by following infection control, sharps disposal and biohazardous waste disposal procedures. Handled insurance verification tasks using Athena software to validate patient insurance information.
Always courteous and sympathetic dealing with patients needs and dealing obtaining blood specimens when on the floor.
Tracked collected specimens by initialing, dating and noting times of collection.floor drawing blood in the E.R, Labor and Delivery, ICU Rapid Interventions, Physical Therapy to the Behavioral Health
Knowledge of medical terminology and Hippa privacy regulations to the workplace and blood borne pathogens.
Maintaining processing in the lab doing general office work communicating with with the hospital as a whole to carriers picking up specimens.
Maintained spinning different certifuge machines from Ammonia Lactic acids, gold tubes such as , bmps, green tubes such as troponion, INR blue tubes to blood gases on a ABL machine
Collected blood samples using vacutainer tubes, tourniquets, syringes, butterfly needles, and straight needles stocked phlebotomy cart or carrier with appropriate suppliesPackaged and shipped specimens to central lab daily.
Cashier/ catering services creating trays for the meetings within the company. Example, vegetables trays fruit cups sandwiches trays etc....
Maintained a clean and professional environment and also assisted with giving the cashier breaks
Maintained keeping the (simply to go) food maintained an prepped.
Worked as general receptionist and member service rep for company, communicated with members over power of attorney information.
maintained general office work, ordering supplies for office.
Completed phone calls to verify if claims were received, completed, and status also coded insurance claims and communicated why claims were not authorized or unauthorized or pending.
Confirmed and educated if patient was within network for their insurance benefits in order to see certain doctor offices, and hospitals.
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