Red Cross Experiences

[echo-000]

Has anyone ever worked/volunteered for the Red Cross as a phlebotomist? If so, what was your experience like? I donated yesterday at a drive and it seems to me that many of the workers were EMTs. Don't you think the work would be pretty easy, taking blood all day, dealing with a few fainters or pukers?

[Timmy]

Cough Cough…… Hmmmm Red Cross, we won’t go there lol :wink:

[Ridryder 911]

Cough Cough…… Hmmmm Red Cross, we won’t go there lol :wink:

Ditto... Could care less, if I ever seen their symbol again. They told me that you have to be a RN associated with them that requires a BSN, to be a Red Cross Nurse.

R/r 911

[Just Plain Ruff]

I was a volunteer for the disaster Action team for a while. I got my medics license and tried to move into the phlebotomy area of their services and they sort of said, Oh a medic, you can't work here drawing blood. So I said why and they said that Medics were in essence not good enough. I tried to argue that fact and also point out the fact that the ER I was working in we were the blood drawers for the entire small 56 bed hospital on the night shift unless we were running a call. They still wouldn't budge so I said the hell with them and left their services all together.

[Dustdevil]

Ditto... Could care less, if I ever seen their symbol again.

Dude, ragging on somebody's avatar photo is really juvenile.

[Ridryder 911]

:oops: ... Oops!!....Sorry!!!! With that dazzling smile, didn't even notice the cross...

R/r 911

[AnthonyM83]

Are there nation-wide variances in the qualifications of paramedics drawing blood?

I ask, because the requirement seems to be a national one. I can't see a national organization leaving it up to local chapters (of varying competancies) to determine who qualifies on case by case basis. They have to have some kind of national standard to maintain quality control.

Or am I just being too optimistic about them here?