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career in phlebotomy?

  • 21-05-2014 6:13pm
    #1
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    Hi folks,

    This is the most appropriate section of the forum I can find. Im looking to see if anyone has any information on a cereer in phlebotomy, and requirments to train. I am allready working as a paramedic in the ambulance service but because of an ongoing back injury, I cant see myself being able to last in this career with the amount of manual labour and heavy lifting involved. Does a person have to have a university nursing career before specialising in phlebotomy? Id appreciate if anyone had any information or guidance on this?


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  • #2
    Xeyn
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    To be honest I don't know te exact requirements only that phlebotomists in the public sector tended to be nurses whilst anyone could be a phlebotomist in the private hospitals- care assistants, students, lab technicians provided you did the appropriate course.
    So I don't believe there is an exact educational requirement to become a phlebotomist. They may however, discriminate in favour of nurses in the public sector.


  • #3
    Dozen Wicked Words
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    Xeyn wrote: »
    To be honest I don't know te exact requirements only that phlebotomists in the public sector tended to be nurses whilst anyone could be a phlebotomist in the private hospitals- care assistants, students, lab technicians provided you did the appropriate course.
    So I don't believe there is an exact educational requirement to become a phlebotomist. They may however, discriminate in favour of nurses in the public sector.

    Dunno if it's discrimination in public hospitals or that it's just a place to put nurses whose backs are fupped.


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