Phlebotomy

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

I'm strongly considering doing a Phlebotomy course to ease myself back into the workforce. Blood has never bothered me, causing others pain may, I'll hafta do the course to find out.

Just curious about whether there are any Phlebotomist BBers?

[Arimeh]

Nope but I've also considered looking into it. Usually whenever I'm getting blood taken for some strange reason...

[Eenee]

I'm a nurse but worked in pathology for a little while taking blood.

[Traveller]

I work with a few phlebotomists, they specialise in taking blood from babies and are amazing at what they do.

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

Just looked up courses at 2 different places. One takes a weekend, the other takes 6 weeks fulltime.

I think we know which one is going to be the accredited one :/

[briggsy's girl]

I've done a course but was tossing up whether to go that path or what I'm doing now. I wanted local work as my grandad was ill and I was caring for him part time so I took the work that was available. No regrets. I do t think I'd have found it held my attention long.

[AlligatorsMum]

ive done a weekend phlebotomy course through my work. Im a medical receptionist and we run clinical trials out of our office and i do the blood draws that each study requires.

I think my Weekend course was through WASP? a Western Australia based company that runs the courses nation wide. It was enough to satisfy the medical companies for our purposes but not sure whether it would satisfy Lab Comapnies (ie QML, Sullivan and Nics etc). I think you will find a lot of those companies will want to retrain you anyway so that you do things "their" way? Perhaps give some of your local lab companies a call and ask them what they look for in a possible employee?

Good Luck!

[Caz_88]

I am a qualified phlebotomist. (medical scientist now lol) You really want to get the cert III in pathology. I qualified through tafe southbank in brisbane- a great course if you are local and includes 2 weeks work experience. Even if you have a cert III the big companies generally have their own qualifying on the job course that you will have to complete regardless- the cert III just makes you more competitive for the position. I would probably approach a few local companies about positions available before enrolling- the Cert III is expensive and may bw unnecessary HTH

[MsMayy]

I'm a pathology collector (phlebotomist but I don't really refer to myself as that) and I have a cert III. I suggest doing a the cert if you don't have any nursing training it will give you everything you need and set you up when applying for work.
My workplace won't hire anyone without a cert III or div 2 and the short course (and a lot of our div 2's are doing the course through work)
I love the job and inflicting pain on people can bother me but generally I get past it its children and babies that gets me the most but I know that they need it so that they can get better etc.
it's a very rewarding job and though the pay isn't great I don't see me moving on from it anytime soon
Definitely do it! I am hopeless if I need a blood test but completely fine to do it to others and think it gives me a bit more sympathy for them
Traveller - I think you might work with some ladies from my work