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Should I take a refresher course if I'm not 100% confident ?
Should I take a refresher course if I'm not 100% confident with the skills I learned in phlebotomy?
I'm in phlebotomy right now and we've done a lot of things that havr went by really fast. I would hate to get a job and my supervisor or a doctor think I'm dumb becaise I forgot to do something. My instructor isn't getting to me well. I can draw blood, but we also had to do gram smears once and other labs. I dont know how to explain it, but we barely get time to do certain things because the instructor is always late for class, late coming back from lunch, and dismisses class early because she's tired or doesnt want to drive in the rain or some other excuse. We just did things one time and moved onto something else. I can draw blood, I do study, but I feel like I need to practice mpre labs, so I can get better. Class is over next week and then we're doing externship and I'm not confident
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I would say the teacher was the problem. Cutting class time due to her schedule of longer lunches, late for class and dismissing early means she could not let you practice. Being shown once is just that, being shown how. But it seems the practice tine was missing. talk to other students and see if any others feel the same way as I feel this teacher should be reported to the principal of the school. One person complaining will easily be overlooked but a handful, and it will be looked into and the teacher talked to and watched more closely but her superiors. The reason why this should happen is in case she is the only teacher doing that and she would be teaching the refresher course. If it is an entirely new teacher but they are also lax and do the same thing, you can't keep taking the same classes five times just to get the practice and confidence you should be able to get in one class. People also have different learning styles so some learn from seeing it done. I learn by once seeing it done, then doing it myself with the teacher watching me. If I don't do it myself, I will forget. There's nothing wrong with having a different learning style that requires some in class practice that is being denied you. Perhaps the superiors themselves are too lax and don't care what their teachers do. All you can do is say something and if it happens again with the same person or another, you can file another complaint and at that point I would take it to the school board that they fall under for whatever district their school is in.
But I agree you should take it again. Now I know why there are some bad blood drawers out there. I have had plenty who keep stabbing here and there and not able to hit a vein and thinking I am difficult, bringing in a new person to try who gets it right the first time. Apparently, the training on such stuff can be sketchy and some get out there and are not confident and piss off the patient. But I still say this should be reported even if you take a refresher.
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