Career, Oppotunities, Challenges, Issues & Concern: The 1st WON Convention and General Assembly

1st WON CONVENTION & GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Phlebotomy: Another Nursing Career

Today, a lot of training institutions offering different trainings, form Basic Life Support, Advance Cardiovascular Life Support, ECG Training, Intravenous Therapy, up to the recent training the “Phlebotomy Training”.

Being a nurse requires you different skills to use in emergency cases. In the laboratory, medical technology personnel are the one to do blood extraction at the laboratory or in the wards and special areas, but now, through the phlebotomy training the nurse may now extract blood samples to their patient. Usually, the laboratory personnel is toxic in warding to get blood samples in the morning, instead of waiting the patient not to eat due to his/her blood extraction for cholesterol analysis and fasting blood sugar.

Featured Nurse: Nurse Educator

Nowadays, there a lot of nurses who are unemployed and there are those who recently passed the board examination that adds to this number. Many of them want to be employed in hospitals and clinics, which our colleagues see as the only option to practice their profession.

However, there are a lot of non-hospital based, nursing-related works to venture into. These include being an educator, a medical representative, a BPO agent, a project officer, in the armed forces, in the police force and a whole lot more.

Let me share with you the story of my friend.