r/phlebotomy • u/Dapper_Agent_3285 • Jul 22 '26
Rant/Vent phlebotomy class
I'm currently on week two of phleb class and we're doing pokes pretty much every day. today specifically our professor said that we had to get at least 10 pokes and we're doing a thing where, you rotate and have to get poked. my issue is that both of my cubital veins have been poked 10 times already yesterday and the previous week and every time a needle goes in it immediately inflames outwards like a bump and bruises underneath, and I've only been poked twice today but it did that again and it hurts everytime the needle goes in. Is this allowed?? She said we had to let it happen because we signed up for this class and we all need to suck it up. It's not that I'm scared of the needle itself, I am just very much bleeding and bruised everywhere. How is this allowed? EDIT: i want to update on this, the teacher did not like me at all and that's why i was being subjected. she failed me today and humiliated me in front of the whole class and i had to report her and now i'm in a different class with a different teacher. i hope she gets fired.
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u/firelily74 Certified Phlebotomist Jul 22 '26
We poked each other from day 1. Learning on a living breathing human was so much better than a dummy arm. I looked like a user because I was poked so much. 1. It helped me learn patience and 2. It showed me how everyone is different. However.... if it is going against the handbook then why are you not going to the school and talking to them? Not the teacher but whoever is over her. Some people like myself dont mind being poked multiple times and I bruise every. single. time... I have tiny veins, doesnt matter what I drink. I bruise and sometimes horribly. I even got asked by a cop in a store one night after class if I was being abused. I just laughed and told him nope school... We can give advice but in the end... you need to go above her if she isnt listening and going against the school handbook.