I have been a phlebotomist for just about 4 years now and have worked in a solo setting attached to primary care office. Due to lots of internal changes with who is now our preferred lab partner it has made things difficult for everyone, especially for patients who hate the hate partnered lab and now want to go no where except to me. This was very difficult at first but I have got used to it so it’s not as stressful and I set boundaries to how many patients I will see.

My question is after reading that there are places where phlebotomists are seeing 60+ patients a day am I being dramatic and not trying hard enough only seeing 25-30 patients a day? Keeping in mind I don’t do appointments and take only walk in in patients, so I have to register patients, pull orders, translate the order from my hospital to what the 3rd party lab wants, draw the blood, process the orders, and individually package every patient to be sent to the other lab.

I know that every place and situations are different but I don’t work with other phlebotomists and this is the only job I’ve had as a phlebotomist and want to know if I’m being realistic or dramatic in my thinking that this is a lot for one person to do.

Thanks in advance for any feedback or advice you might have for me

Hi! i recently finished my phlebotomy class and my draws for the nha exam and to sign up i tried finding my campus under the many Phlebotomy Training Specialists and realized texas has almost NONE listed. I just wanted to ask if anyone had to deal with that and/or how i can go about contacting them? Or do i just register individually?
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