Blood Draws??

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Hi everyone

I am new here.

I have a question about RN's drawing blood. I am an RN working at a Drug Treatment Center. I am actually the only RN on Staff. I work under a clinician and a Psychiatric NP.

We just signed on with a new lab and will now be drawing blood. I will be the staff member handling it as well as drawing blood. They are shipping the supplies this week and it is moving quicker then I anticipated.

I feel comfortable and confident but also want to be the best that I can be. I researched a bit and noticed there are some one day online courses that I can take for blow draws/phlebotomy. Time is of the essence. Does anyone have some guidance for me or can point me in the right direction. Below is one of the sites I found.

Please let me know if you have any thoughts.......

Phlebotomy for Nursing Personnel Class

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

I would say that if you have any practice with starting IVs, you do not need a phlebotomy class. At most, I would see if there is a local lab you can contact to spend the day shadowing one of their phlebs to watch technique. After that, it's just doing it.

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Specializes in Home health, Addictions, Detox, Psych and clinics..

I would honestly suggest taking the class as in general the patient population you work with will be harder to from if they used a lot of drugs intravenously. Prepare yourself. :) you can do it!

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

A nursing only class may focus on PICCs, ports, and central lines because only nurses can draw from those lines.

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