House call phlebotomists must own a car to travel to patients home, some patients are elderly or have medical issues and cannot travel. The House call Phlebotomist would schedule a home visit to see the patient and draw them. The right candidate for this position must be certified as a Phlebotomist and have experience. Compensation is $12 per patient.
-Responsible for the accurate, timely performance of venipuncture and/or capillary specimen collection to obtain quality laboratory results.
-Screen and enter patient data into the Laboratory computer system and central computer systems.
– Serves patients by preparing specimens for laboratory testing; performing screening procedures.
-Phlebotomists may collect blood and receive urine samples from patients, but may not choose which tests are to be performed nor perform any tests or procedures with these samples.
-Phlebotomists take or send specimens to the laboratories that will do all tests and other procedures, prepare and send a report of their findings to the authorized health care practitioner who will use them in rendering a diagnosis and recommending treatment.
Phlebotomist Job Duties:
· Verifies test requisitions by comparing information with nursing station log; bringing discrepancies to the attention of unit personnel.
· Verifies patient by reading patient identification.
· Obtains blood specimens by performing venipunctures and fingerstick.
· Maintains specimen integrity by using aseptic technique, following department procedures; observing isolation procedures.
· Collects therapeutic drug-monitoring assays by collaborating with nursing personnel to ensure appropriate drug dose to collection time.
· Tracks collected specimens by initialing, dating, and noting times of collection; maintaining daily tallies of collections performed.
· Monitors glucose levels by performing bedside glucose tests; recording results; reporting results to unit nurse-manager.
· Performs bleeding-times tests by entering results to the computer; notifying pathologist of results falling outside normal ranges.
· Maintains quality results by following department procedures and testing schedule; recording results in the quality-control log; identifying and reporting needed changes.
· Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by following standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations.
· Resolves unusual test orders by contacting the physician, pathologist, nursing station, or reference laboratory; referring unresolved orders back to the originator for further clarification; notifying supervisor of unresolved orders.