Today, Auburn has grown since its founding to have an on-campus enrollment of over 25,000 students and a faculty of almost 1,200 at the main campus in Auburn. There are also more than 6,000 students at the Auburn University at Montgomery satellite campus established in 1967.
A phlebotomist is a health care worker who draws blood from patients for analysis. Phlebotomists work in a variety of health care settings, including hospitals, blood donation facilities and clinics. A phlebotomist must be skilled at using needles and blood collection equipment, and follow rigid safety procedures.
As a phlebotomist, you will be the one who draws blood from patients, collects a variety of other specimen samples as well as label the blood vials that you have filled. 1  You will also be responsible for bringing all blood and specimen samples to the laboratory either in the hospital you are working in or locally in the area. Below is a quick list of the job duties that you should expect when working as a phlebotomy technician and form the phlebotomist job description in full: collect blood samples from patients practice proper patient identification, especially when working on hospital floors