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Mar. 30th, 2005 08:39 pmI'm all excited because I got to poke someone today.
I was internal courier at work, running the cart full of files around the building. I happened to be going by the lab, and apparently they didn't have any patients and were getting bored. They'd decided to just practice drawing blood on each other. I wander by and stop to giggle at them and watch, and suddenly one of them asks, "Do you want to try it?" I was like, "Are you serious?!?" "Sure!" The next thing I know, I'm pulling on gloves, someone is showing me how the needle for drawing blood is set up, and one of the lab workers is putting on a rubber tourniquet type thing and saying, "I have nice veins, look at that!" It was her idea that I try it, so I didn't feel too bad. I've never been needle-phobic, but it's admittedly not my favorite thing to have done to myself. Getting the needle in was really easy, but you have to push really hard on the tube (it's a vaccuum, that's why it fills so fast) and that made me uneasy, I was afraid I'd push the needle in further.
She was really surprised and said I was very good...she didn't even feel it. As we throw out the vial of blood and the needle (which has this really cool plastic thing it snaps into before you throw it out so you can't stick yourself in the process) and I take off my gloves, she turns to the lab manager and says, "Don't we need a phlebotomist float? Hey, you wanna be a phlebotomist?" I think my eyes got as big as saucers. They started chatting and I finished my run.
The next time I came around I asked, "Were you serious about the phlebotomy thing?" Apparently they really need someone to cover when people call in sick etc., but they haven't been approved to hire someone. One of them said they'd call a higher-up and get back to me.
Doood. I don't know how that would work with my job in records--I'll have to see. But I'm hopeful. Phlebotomy pays pretty good because it's in demand. I wouldn't even be doing any testing on the blood--my job would just be to poke people. Which, as I've discovered, isn't hard. I'm glad I was surprised by it, because I didn't have much time to get nervous or squeamish. I always thought it would freak me out to poke people, but I guess not. Odd--I hate cutting open dead animals because I get so sick feeling, but I can apparently stick needles in living people and draw their blood.
There's a six-week night class at PCC for it, but I owe them money... Cherie told me to ask if I could get on-the-job training and then take an exam or something like that. It's still all hypothetical anyway. *shrug*
Yeay, poking people.
Also, talked to my supervisor--I was worried because of people getting fired, but I'm safe and doing fine. Matter of fact, I'm getting trained on something new next week. I asked what made her decide to hire me, and it was apparently that I looked energetic. Which amuses me, because I was proud of myself at my interview for sitting still. *lol* Apparently it shows no matter what.
I was internal courier at work, running the cart full of files around the building. I happened to be going by the lab, and apparently they didn't have any patients and were getting bored. They'd decided to just practice drawing blood on each other. I wander by and stop to giggle at them and watch, and suddenly one of them asks, "Do you want to try it?" I was like, "Are you serious?!?" "Sure!" The next thing I know, I'm pulling on gloves, someone is showing me how the needle for drawing blood is set up, and one of the lab workers is putting on a rubber tourniquet type thing and saying, "I have nice veins, look at that!" It was her idea that I try it, so I didn't feel too bad. I've never been needle-phobic, but it's admittedly not my favorite thing to have done to myself. Getting the needle in was really easy, but you have to push really hard on the tube (it's a vaccuum, that's why it fills so fast) and that made me uneasy, I was afraid I'd push the needle in further.
She was really surprised and said I was very good...she didn't even feel it. As we throw out the vial of blood and the needle (which has this really cool plastic thing it snaps into before you throw it out so you can't stick yourself in the process) and I take off my gloves, she turns to the lab manager and says, "Don't we need a phlebotomist float? Hey, you wanna be a phlebotomist?" I think my eyes got as big as saucers. They started chatting and I finished my run.
The next time I came around I asked, "Were you serious about the phlebotomy thing?" Apparently they really need someone to cover when people call in sick etc., but they haven't been approved to hire someone. One of them said they'd call a higher-up and get back to me.
Doood. I don't know how that would work with my job in records--I'll have to see. But I'm hopeful. Phlebotomy pays pretty good because it's in demand. I wouldn't even be doing any testing on the blood--my job would just be to poke people. Which, as I've discovered, isn't hard. I'm glad I was surprised by it, because I didn't have much time to get nervous or squeamish. I always thought it would freak me out to poke people, but I guess not. Odd--I hate cutting open dead animals because I get so sick feeling, but I can apparently stick needles in living people and draw their blood.
There's a six-week night class at PCC for it, but I owe them money... Cherie told me to ask if I could get on-the-job training and then take an exam or something like that. It's still all hypothetical anyway. *shrug*
Yeay, poking people.
Also, talked to my supervisor--I was worried because of people getting fired, but I'm safe and doing fine. Matter of fact, I'm getting trained on something new next week. I asked what made her decide to hire me, and it was apparently that I looked energetic. Which amuses me, because I was proud of myself at my interview for sitting still. *lol* Apparently it shows no matter what.
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