Adkins teaches Skeen’s medical assisting class phlebotomy skills
- Kamora Hunt, Jessica Gonzalez
- 1 day ago
- 1 min read
Darlene Adkins, the retired Health Science teacher who also taught Medical Assisting, came to help Mrs Skeen’s medical assisting class with the Phlebotomy portion of the class. Phlebotomy is a medical procedure that includes performing blood draws on children and adults. They collect and prepare blood for testing so it can be analyzed in a medical laboratory. Adkins has been working as a Phlebotomist, as needed, in a local Doctors office since her retirement. Adkins taught the correct way to use tourniquets (A device used to apply pressure to a limb in order to stop the flow of blood), how to find a vein for drawing blood, and how to hold the vacutainer (A medical device, specifically a blood collection tube, that uses vacuum to draw blood into it).
Students will be testing soon for their CCMA and Adkins gave good advice regarding testing and to study, study, study. Student Maggie June Stepp proclaimed, “It was very informational and she’s very good at her job. She taught us how to draw blood properly.” Will Holt added on, “It was a little hard to learn at first because I was trying to tie a tourniquet because I am a left handed person, but I eventually learned. Mrs Adkins was very good at teaching me how to tie a tourniquet on my arm.” Thank you Mrs Adkins for taking time out of your day to visit and show the students some valuable hands-on experience.
