Veronica Sereno

Initially when I first got hired with Arc my job title was medical assistant which included driving to the mobiles screening the donors for eligibility taking routine vital signs and finally collecting the blood units. I later went back to school and obtained an LVN license which Arc recognized as an advancement and promoted me to an LVN charge nurse. I also am utilized as a special collections nurse for those patients who come in to donate their own blood for their surgeries. Just recently I have also taken on another skill as in running the automated collections procedure to collect red cells. I have been currently employed for almost 20 years with the American Red Cross.

In charge of the daily operations opening of the lab collecting specimens and closing the lab.

Duties included back office patient care assisting with OB-GYN examinations and specimen collection. In the same office I also worked for the spouse which was the pediatrician that included patient care, vital signs, injections, and physical exams for school-age children.

Worked the back office as far as in taking and patien performing vital signs, performing physical exams for school age children, administration of injections, and assisted in the physician with circumcisions.