So the first night some fairly amazing things were said. To start off they had everyone come up and introduce themselves and tell a little personal info.
In describing what phlebotomy is like, the teacher told us that it has some really cool perks. One of these times is getting to tell the patient the results of a positive pregnancy test. "Sometimes the patient is excited." Did you like the qualifier there? I sure did.
One girl got up and stated "I hate needles and blood. Time to get over my fears."
Another guy described that he was going into radiological sciences. The teacher asked if he had any kids and when he said no she said "that's probably a good thing you have no kids if you're going into radiology." She just meant that there are some serious time constraints, but it came out waaaayyyy different.
One lady, I kid you not, said this line out of the blue as she was giving her intro, "So my girlfriend called me up and asked if I wanted to take this phlebotomy class. And I asked myself, do I take this class and better myself or stay in county jail?" Apparently phlebotomy was the lesser of two evils.
Another woman was interesting (sorry, not funny) and admitted that she liked reading medical journals in her spare time and wanted to become a cardiovascular surgeon. Of course this gal also stopped showing up so maybe it wasn't worth it?
Lastly there was the teacher herself who was just kind of funny cuz she was a little ditsy. Her funniest story was talking about the crap patients make licensed nurses deal with, and how during a particularly unpleasant hospital stay she even made life hard for nurse too. The nurse had asked her to collect a urine sample but hadn't been back to collect it. Her "need assistance" light had been on for just a bit too long and she was really frustrated, so much so that when the nurse finally came back she chucked her collection at the attendee getting it all over.
Was almost as funny as when she described another story describing how phlebotomists are not responsible for cleaning up after patients. Apparently another patient had been waiting on a nurse just a little too long to use the restroom, and when the teacher went in randomly to draw this patient's blood she found the patient had taken a dump on the floor. She promptly turned on heel and let the nurses at the station know that the patient needed them.
"Why?"
"Because the patient has a problem."
"What type of problem?"
"They went to the bathroom on the floor."
"Then clean it up!"
"That's not my job!"
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