Phlebotomy externship vs medical scribe

Differences between phlebotomy externship and medical scribe duties and responsibilities

Phlebotomy externship example responsibilities.

• Provide mobile phlebotomy services to home-bound clients and clients in convalescent facilities, manage and plan efficient daily routes
• Utilize patient identification procedures and specimen labeling skills in the presence of patients to ensure proper specimen requisition.
• Assist with ER rounds and specimen centrifugation.
• Adhere to all HIPAA guidelines to maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.
• Practice standard precautions, and follow all HIPPA and OSHA regulations.
• Prepare patient rooms, syringes and correct pallet dosage for surgical procedures.
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Medical scribe example responsibilities.

• Manage sensitive and confidential materials such as patient health records following HIPAA regulations.
• Adhere to OSHA guidelines while performing instrument sterilization in addition to managing medical inventory.
• Rotate in internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, orthopedic surgery, and burn medicine departments
• Transcribe patient orders including laboratory tests results, radiology test findings, medications, allergies.
• Utilize PC and LIS to enter and retrieve patient data, includes verifying orders and retrieving results using HIPAA compliance.
• Perform Phlebotomy procedures on patients.
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