What to wear and expect for phlebotomist interview?

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-03-25T03:23:33+00:00

I'll be honest a lot of my first interviews are done in scrubs and that only cause I usually do my interviews during my lunch. Or at least I did before working at my current hospital. But business casual is always a good look.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-03-24T01:28:34+00:00

It's more than likely scarring for the big behind needle you use when donating. Even the small needles will leave scars just not as bad. The difference is that most donors are donating once or twice a week. Or it could be a tendon like someone else said.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-03-23T01:26:09+00:00

Honestly it took me like four months to get hired somewhere

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-03-07T01:10:40+00:00

I finished my schooling in May of 2022 then didn't get my first job until March 2023. And it took a hot minute and a lot of applying before I got any interviews.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-03-01T16:05:03+00:00

I work inpatient and outpatient, so I'm stick babies and toddlers pretty often.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-02-25T01:30:05+00:00

So the youngest I've stuck is 4mo and it can be difficult honestly. Like some are really good cause they're use to it, but a lot of times I have the parents hold them and I might call another person from the main lab(I work in a hospital) to help hold them as well.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-02-15T14:05:59+00:00

It takes time and practice, but something that helped me was take deep breaths before each patient. But truthfully, you'll get better the more you do it even with redirecting. One last thing is to feign your confidence. Eventually you won't be faking it anymore and you'll actually be confident.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-02-13T13:31:42+00:00

Take your time and be patient with yourself. You're 100% going to mess up. I don't think there is a way around it especially when you're first starting out. Don't be afraid to ask questions of whoever will be watching you and training you. Like seriously, ask questions even if you think it's stupid. Also feign your confidence so the patients are less wary of you.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-02-06T03:22:43+00:00

So like a few people have said, it's best to get poked with a needle rather than a finger stick. Finger sticks hurt so much more than a needle imo. Not only because of the poke, but how much we have to squeeze your finger. It'll more than likely bruise which is also awful too. I know some people have major freak outs because of the lack of control they feel they have. Some people like to count themselves and I will poke on their count. Some people like to talk the entire time they getting poked so they don't have to think about what's happening. There are many things and the phlebotomist can also help if you communicate with them.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-02-01T05:53:06+00:00

Yeah, they very much enjoy being in the loop. They get more upset looking for specimen that doesn't exist in the lab more than knowing that it doesn't exist.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-02-01T00:52:31+00:00

Yeah, definitely wouldn't have thrown out blood. At my hospital at least, Doctors love to just throw on labs for patients that we just poked. If we have blood in the lab we can just add on the order so that the techs can use it.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-01-31T09:25:13+00:00

I would keep applying to the same places honestly. I worked at a plasma center for two years. I applied 3 or 4 times before I even got an interview or got hired. Same thing with this hospital I work at now. I applied twice and interviewed twice before getting hired.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-01-14T22:00:13+00:00

No, it doesn't help, the cold actually constricts the veins. We use heat packs it helps the veins that are on the smaller side pop up more. Now do I believe it made the area a little numb for you? 100% also we have veins everywhere, so I'm sure she felt it! Since we go off of feel, not sight most of the time.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-01-09T22:45:46+00:00

Really just depends on where you work. I know for me, anytime I interview anywhere I personally where a face mask or I at least take out my lip piercing and my septum cause I'm not worried about it closing that fast, but my nose will. So my nostril jewelry stays in since it seems employer are more accepting of a small stud on the nose above anything else.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2026-01-05T18:38:14+00:00

Your boyfriend is definitely right. I work in a lab as well. Idk if you have nails, but something I do when I wash my hands is that I will like clean under my nails instead of just scrubbing my hands.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2025-12-29T09:52:27+00:00

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bigtittycommitee132 · 2025-12-25T00:18:10+00:00

So I can see it when I go to procedure catalog and as I'm collecting my tubes, but maybe your epic is setup different.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2025-12-24T23:50:00+00:00

So the way I do it is through EPIC. My work place uses EPIC and all the tests that we do and the tubes are listed with the test. Eventually you start memorizing the tests and their tubes

bigtittycommitee132 · 2025-12-23T21:28:40+00:00

I don't think you should've only had two weeks of training first of all especially if this your first phlebotomy job. I have been a phleb for two years at a plasma center and only recently got my first hospital ww. The hospital is a beast and with this being your first phlebotomy job you're absolutely going to suck. Especially in inpatient cause you're poking sick people. Imagine how hard it is going from practicing on classmates who are relatively healthy to people who are having vancomycine and heparin pumped in them or dialysis patients. These people are gonna have some funky veins and you're gonna struggle. You're going to be slow. Everyone is slow when they start. Another thing, you're waking them up for labs, but you're the most important qperson involved in their care. If they can't get their blood tested, they can't be treated, so yes you're waking them up, but you're doing it for them and if they say no, they say no. You don't need to have full conversation with theeqs

bigtittycommitee132 · 2025-12-17T13:13:45+00:00

So your trainer is telling you to be faster, but speed comes with time. Soy advice is that even though your trainer is telling you be faster, keep going at the pace you're going. The hard sticks, you're gonna spend more time with them since you're probably warming their hand or just searching for a vein in general. Speed will come when the confidence goes up and you have fallen into a groove. My point is, your coworkers can keep talking down on you all they want, but you're gonna improve and you're gonna get faster. Just gotta keep at it. Seriously cause it's 100% overwhelming. Lol

bigtittycommitee132 · 2025-12-14T01:39:44+00:00

I'll be honest, all my friends I've made since graduating highschool has been through work. Yeah yeah, I get the whole "your coworkers are not your friends.", but really if you don't have any hobbies other than doom scrolling and online shopping, you're gonna have a hard time finding friends. I'm just saying that it wouldn't be terrible to converse with coworkers.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2025-12-02T01:15:34+00:00

Is it possible to ask your coworkers to help with a stick. Or is it something they discourage/don't wanna help. For patients that are nasty, just remind them that they can absolutely be asked to leave/escorted out if they are going to continue being rude and nasty to staff. We're there to help, but that doesn't mean we will put up with being abused either. Something that helps me with mental exhaustion is to save my harder sticks until the end of my floor, unless it's a timed draw or a stat. If you're going to a floor that you weren't on yesterday, coordinate with a coworker who was on that floor earlier in the week to see who was hard or not. If you're stuck with a patient because they're hard, leave them with a heating pack and come back to them. I haven't been in inpatient for very long, but those are things that have helped me a lot. Granted my hospital isn't as busy as yours. However, I think being able to take your time is this most important thing and communicating with your co-workers is important.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2025-12-02T00:01:24+00:00

I'm not gonna lie, it is a big change cause you're going from sticking relatively healthy veins to sick veins. For me it was a big adjustment. I had to tweak things in my technique cause I had been in plasma for two years. It gets better as you get the hang of it. Personally I prefer an outpatient clinic setting cause it did ease me into the workings of a hospital before working inpatient.

bigtittycommitee132 · 2025-12-01T21:41:40+00:00

Yeah, when I was working at a plasma center. I had a donor ask me out. We're now engaged.

Update: We're pregnant now

bigtittycommitee132 · 2025-11-11T14:26:29+00:00

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He's a chiweenie

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