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Some help for fellow Phlebotomy students!

This is the saying that helps me remember the order of draw for venipuncture:

Yellow (blood cultures)

Light (PT, PTT, Coagulation)

Stop (Chemistry testing)

Green (Any plasma test except plasma cells)

Light (Blood group, Carbon Monoxide levels, CBC)

Go (Glucose, Lactic acid, Blood alcohol levels)

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I missed another IV I am sick and tired of being a bad stick I want to be able to help patients this way but I can't and I'm sick of ppl saying oh everyone misses a stick once in a while no I miss ALL OF THEM! I HAVE A PROBLEM! And I can't fix it because no one believes me! Sometimes I feel like it's just luck and I drew bad stick out of the cosmic hat and will always be one but I don't want that!

Do any healthcare people know if there's such a thing as IV remedial? Is there a class or a job where people consistently come out really good?

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I always struggle with collecting blood from the small ruminants like goats and sheep. Any suggestion, that can help me master it?

vet-and-wild here.

Honestly, practice. I used to hate when people would give me that answer but now that I've been out for a couple years it's the truth. Studying anatomy may help, so you know where your landmarks are, but honestly it just takes time to get used to how to angle your needle, how to hold the syringe, etc and there's not really a substitute for that other than time and practice.

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I was scrolling throught yt shorts and saw this vid and looked at the comments.

The video shows that the op got bruised after getting his blood drawn.

I see a lot of the commentors and their same experience as the op and I feel for them. Such as nurses sticking needles a lot of times cause the can't find the vein and such...

As far as I know, nurses are trained to perform venipuncture but it would be better to leave it to the phlebotomist as it's their expertise.

But as a future medtech/phlebotomist, this is what I'm scared of. Everybody starts from the beginning and to become proficient in something, you need to start from somewhere even if you're not good at it.

If the patient is nervous, I'm more nervous than them! I'm actually scared on harming them if I failed to draw blood from them. In advance, I'm sorry but I have to start from somewhere and this will help us beginners to improve in venipuncture.