Octavia Howard
Focused Phlebotomist
Houston, Texas 77038
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EXPERIENCE
Dean’s Professional Services, Houston, Texas —
Phlebotomist
November 2021- December 2023
- Collect blood samples from patients, label, and process.
- Collected blood samples 35+ patients daily.
- Maintain general equipment and hygiene while following quality control procedures.
- Good Clinical Practices, HIPAA, and other guidelines.
- Accessioning samples, inventory, and updating records. Stamford Memorial Hospital, Houston, Texas —
Phlebotomist
December 2017- February 2018
- Collect blood samples from patients, label, and process.
-Maintain general equipment and hygiene while following quality control procedures.
- Good Clinical Practices, HIPAA, and other guidelines.
-Patient care, update records, and charting.
Novum Pharmaceutical Research, Houston, Texas—
Phlebotomist
July 2015- December 2017
- Offering 10+ years experience in performing venipuncture.
- Proficiency in easing patients anxiety as well as committed to maintaining highest standards of safety and quality control.
-Resolved unusual test orders by contacting physicians, nursing stations, and laboratories.
- Tracked blood samples by Phlebotomy initials, date, and time of collection.
-Assembled tourniquets, blood collection devices, and needles to prepare SKILLS
- outpatient/ inpatient
experience
- hospital experience
-Good Laboratory Practices(
GLP)
-Good Clinical Practices(GCP)
-HIPAA/ CDC guidelines
-Personal Protective
Equipment(PPE)
-Standard Operating
Procedures(SOP)
-Medical Terminology
-Leadership/ Customer
Service
-Driving
-Phlebotomy
-Blood Sampling/ Plasma
Processing
-Pediatric/ young children
and teens/ Geriatric
-venipuncture/ laboratory
procedures
-Patient Care
-Computer skills/ Microsoft
Words
with workstation or trays.
EDUCATION
Houston Community College, Houston, Texas —
Phlebotomy Certificate
May 2011
University Park Academy, Houston, Texas — High School Diploma
May 2009