Phlebotomist Resume Example
A mid-level phlebotomist in Tulsa, five years in, who started at an outpatient draw site and now works the early morning inpatient run at a community hospital.
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Why it works
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“Certified phlebotomy technician (CPT, NHA) with 5 years in outpatient and hospital phlebotomy, the last 3 on a 350-bed hospital's inpatient team. Draw about 45 patients on the morning run and kept my recollection rate at 0.4% in 2025. Take the hard-stick referrals on my shift.”
Credential with its issuing body, setting, volume and a quality number. A lab supervisor checks those before anything else, so they come first.
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“Draw about 45 inpatients on the 4am to 8am morning run across 3 medical-surgical units in a 350-bed hospital”
Setting, hours and volume in one line. 'Performed venipuncture' gives a supervisor none of them.
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“Kept my recollection rate at 0.4% in 2025 for hemolysis, clotting and labeling errors, against a lab goal of 1%”
The quality number the lab already tracks by collector, measured against the lab's own goal.
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“Drew 610 blood culture sets in 2025 with chlorhexidine skin prep and a diversion device, with 2 contaminated”
Blood culture contamination is one of the numbers a hospital lab watches most closely, and a count this specific can be checked.
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“Cut morning draws finished after 7am from 18% to 6% by splitting the run with a second phlebotomist and starting the ICU first”
One fix with a before and after and the change that caused it. Late morning labs hold up rounds, so a supervisor knows why this matters.
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“Drew about 60 outpatients a day at a 2-chair patient service center, including children, glucose tolerance tests and drug screen collections”
Volume plus the range of patients and tests. An outpatient manager can see this person handles a full walk-in day.
How it scored
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Marlow Barragan Certified Phlebotomy Technician, Inpatient and Outpatient Tulsa, OK | marlow.barragan@example.com SUMMARY Certified phlebotomy technician (CPT, NHA) with 5 years in outpatient and hospital phlebotomy, the last 3 on a 350-bed hospital's inpatient team. Draw about 45 patients on the morning run and kept my recollection rate at 0.4% in 2025. Take the hard-stick referrals on my shift. EXPERIENCE Phlebotomist II, Inpatient Laboratory, Cimarron Valley Medical Center | Mar 2023 - Present - Draw about 45 inpatients on the 4am to 8am morning run across 3 medical-surgical units in a 350-bed hospital - Kept my recollection rate at 0.4% in 2025 for hemolysis, clotting and labeling errors, against a lab goal of 1% - Drew 610 blood culture sets in 2025 with chlorhexidine skin prep and a diversion device, with 2 contaminated - Cut morning draws finished after 7am from 18% to 6% by splitting the run with a second phlebotomist and starting the ICU first - Take about 8 hard-stick referrals a shift from nurses and other phlebotomists, using a vein finder and butterfly sets - Trained 5 new phlebotomists on the order of draw, two-identifier checks and bedside barcode labeling in Epic Beaker Phlebotomist, Riverside Diagnostic Laboratories | Jun 2021 - Feb 2023 - Drew about 60 outpatients a day at a 2-chair patient service center, including children, glucose tolerance tests and drug screen collections - Processed, centrifuged and packaged specimens for the courier and entered orders into the lab system EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT), NHA, 2021, renewed 2025 BLS Provider, American Heart Association, 2025 Phlebotomy Technician certificate, Arkansas River Career Institute, 2021 SKILLS Venipuncture and capillary puncture, Order of draw, Blood culture collection, Pediatric and geriatric draws, Hard-stick draws and vein finder, Specimen processing and centrifuging, Epic Beaker, Two-identifier patient ID
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