Clinical Lab Assistant Or Phlebotomist

Clinical Lab Assistant / Phlebotomist Clinical laboratory assistants (CLA) perform the important functions of laboratory work under the supervision of other laboratory professionals. Clinical Lab Assistant can work in a different kind of facilities, like a hospital laboratories, doctor’s office, vet office, he Can work in a medical center like UW Medicine which is one of the oldest state supported institution of higher education and is one of the leading research healthcare in the world. Clinical Lab Assistant analyze samples from patient at the request of physicians. The samples may be blood, urine, or other body fluids. CLA duties usually depends on your employer, duties might include: Recording information, collecting specimens, labelling
Difficult patients can learn you a few things, sometimes the most challenging situations learn you the most. So you should to be a professional in your job and you must have special personal skills to help you in your job. CLA plays important role in health care facility, so he must to be dependable and come on time to the work, be honest and integrity, positive attitude, professional appearance and communication with the patient is the most important skills that should you have. You must to know how to communicate with child that they come in your lab and you will withdraw blood from them. In the beginning you must to speak with them and explain why they are in this place and what you will do with in nice way and your goals is to make the collection as calm, comfortable, and painless. There are some strategies used to reduce the child fear but not all of them work for every child.
As your experience you must to choose best way for each child, you must to prepare your needles and equipment away from child eyes this make less stress for child, try to be friendly and you can make a funny voice , give the child choices which arm can use and what is the bandage shape he need, second important things that you must have a toys or stickers that you encourage
The important benefits of this technology to reduction of clinical lab errors, increase accuracy of the results and fast results. When I make research about clinical lab errors, the results that I find is surprise me. According to Whitneyfirm website “ A new study of 120 clinical pathology labs, where blood, urine and other fluid tests are done, estimates that each year in the United States, more than 2.9 million of these errors occur, and more than 160,000 patients are harmed in some way as a result”(“fatalities caused by medical mistake”( . Whitneyfirm website explain the most common problems in medical lab are missing information in the samples, wrong amount of anticoagulant make clotting to the blood, store sample in the wrong type of container, keeping sample in wrong way of storage, perform the wrong test on the right sample or right test on wrong sample(“fatalities caused by medical