A Career Guide to Phlebotomy

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Out of different healthcare professions, opting Phlebotomy as a career is the best way to serve and earn.  It’s not the thing that other professions are bad or whatever, but being a phlebotomist, you will have more job opportunities than other healthcare professions. Before looking how opting phlebotomy as a career will be best, you must need to take a glance at the term phlebotomy and their job.

What is the job of a phlebotomist?
The simplest job description of a phlebotomist is that they are the qualified professionals who perform vein punctures to collect the blood samples of different people (patients). The blood collection is done for medical testing, research and other procedures like blood donation, transfusion etc. Here is the list of few tests a phlebotomist performs in the lab.

  • Glucose Level Test
  • Calcium Test
  • Blood Cholesterol and Lipids Test
  • D-Timer Test
  • Blood Count
  • HBA1c Test
  • CRP Test
  • Vitamins Test
  • Pregnancy Test

After performing the required blood tests, a phlebotomist makes a report.  This report aids the doctors in prescribing a medicine to the patients.

Expected Places and Opportunities for a phlebotomist
The career as a phlebotomist helps you to stand out from the rest professions, by providing opportunities to work at different places. You can work in different places like:

  • Physician’s Offices
  • Clinical Laboratories
  • Research Laboratories
  • Blood Banks
  • Paramedical Examination
  • Sedation Dentistry
  • Private Nursing Homes
  • Dialysis Centers


Five Reasons to be a Phlebotomist

Phlebotomy is INTERESTING and EASY TO LEARN
It is the human psyche to cover exciting things rapidly. Phlebotomy is an interesting and exciting career, so is the stickier than the other ones and ultimately “Easy to Learn”. Most of the people think that earning money is a difficult task as they are aware of only “hard to learn” skills. Just believe! this is not the case with phlebotomy. Phlebotomy is an easy and super interesting course as you learn to perform blood withdrawal and a huge number of tests. Imagine how joyful this job could be, when you will be in a neat and clean lab, with different testing instruments and chemicals. The cheery on top is that, you can learn it in a short burst of time.

DECENT SALARY
After choosing the area of interest, salary is the next most important thing that matters. Well, the salary of a professional phlebotomist is enough to cross the basic barriers of future goals. In the start the expected salary is $11-$13/hour. However, if you belong to reputed institute with good practical skills it could be doubled ie $20-$25/hour.

INCREASING JOB DEMAND
Almost 80% of the major diseases (especially cancers) are spotted by blood test and the number is  increasing day after day. Moreover, every pregnant woman wants to know about its conformity. There are other number of tests like Blood count, dialysis who cases are increasing. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics the job outlook of phlebotomists is expected to increase 24 percent from 2019 to 2028, much faster than the average for all professions. Hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, blood donor centres, and other locations will need phlebotomists to perform bloodwork.

FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES
The next best thing about phlebotomy is that you can set your own business. This could be done in a way that; after getting years of some practical experience in the field, you can come up with your own lab. When you will have a license after the completion of training, you can use that license to make your own blood testing center, blood bank or a lab. This will ultimately help you to make a good amount of money.

A NOBLE AND WHITE-COLLAR JOB

Being noble is defined as having, showing, or coming from personal qualities that people admire (such as honesty, generosity, courage, etc.) There are a few noble professions in this world. Practicing medicine is one of them. The healthcare profession and the teaching profession are considered as the most noble jobs throughout the World. Career as a phlebotomist provides you internal satisfaction as you earn money by doing something meaningful in real. Beside this, the career phlebotomy also lies in the white-collar jobs. That means you will be working in a neat and clean job place. What else is required by a profession out of these wonderful offerings!

How to become a Phlebotomist – In A Nutshell
Becoming a phlebotomist is not difficult as a Greek’s Puzzle. All what you need is a sheer determination and a right guidance. It all starts with selecting the field of your interest. When you decide the main field, you need to choose the area of your interest in that field. Let say you make a mind choose healthcare profession. The next thing, as I foresaid, is the subfield. Now it comes to the college or institute, professional faculty and learning labs. Each of the college has mentioned age limit and education background. It matters that where you get your phlebotomy degree.  If it is a highly reputed institute you can get a job easily and with more per-hour/annual income. The reason is that most of the institutes have direct links with the marketplace. So after the completion of training period, they can offer you a paid internship of a direct job in any healthcare unit.
So in a nutshell, you can become a successful phlebotomist by following the mention (below) things:

  • Set your Goal
  • Choose the main field i.e Healthcare Profession
  • Select the area of interest in that field i.e Phlebotomy
  • Find the well-known institute
  • Check their Admission criteria
  • Enroll yourself in the college
  • Complete your training as a phlebotomist
  • Do Internships
  • Jump into the job

But the end of it must be concluded by the quote “To be, or not to be, that is the question”. If you want to be anything in your life, you must need to know the answer of this and there is no doubt in it.

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