No soldier goes to a battle unarmed that's why a Phlebotomist is armed with lots of weapons in his warding tray for his blood extractions. So the first thing he has in mind is to prepare his warding tray. This is where his weapons are found like syringes, tubes, tourniquet, swabs and anything necessary. No phlebotomist comes to go to a blood war without any extras too. So he has to see to it he gets the right things as he enters the patient's room. Let me introduce to you our warding trays in the lab.
the GRAY WARDING TRAY
This is the light-weight warding tray. This is the tray that I used during my first few weeks being a phleb in the hospital. I take this one if the shift is not busy. Although it's easy to carry but it has lots of disadvantages (for me). You can only take 5-10 samples of patients's blood (what if CBC with a chem test for instance). This will also take your busy time refilling when you're out of tubes or syringes. You have to take a look on your requests as it may fall out from the make-shift compartment. What's the good thing of this tray is that it makes your warding extractions faster. You can easily walk through the hallways swinging this tray in your hand. :-)
the WHITE WARDING TRAY
This is the heavy weight warding tray. At first,I find it so heavy with my little hand and short arm to carry, but I'm now used to it. So organized and clean to look at. It has compartments to make your requests secure from missing. Recommended for morning extractions. It can carry up to 45 samples. You can load enough supplies in it. This will make you look more legit phlebotomist too.
The good thing of getting big warding trays is that you can also take the big waste container (that yellow one where you put the used syringe, alcohol swabs, gloves). It doesn't require too much refilling from time to time. Just after your shift is done.
the BLACK tray
This tray is used for home service requests, This contains enough supplies for extraction. There is a butterfly syringe set in this tray in case of patients who have fragile veins. This is lightweight too and keeps the samples secure for transport.
At the end of the shift, the phlebotomist refills his ammunitions for the next day. This is to make sure that as another blood war comes, he is ready to take his shield whenever the call arises.
the GRAY WARDING TRAY
This is the light-weight warding tray. This is the tray that I used during my first few weeks being a phleb in the hospital. I take this one if the shift is not busy. Although it's easy to carry but it has lots of disadvantages (for me). You can only take 5-10 samples of patients's blood (what if CBC with a chem test for instance). This will also take your busy time refilling when you're out of tubes or syringes. You have to take a look on your requests as it may fall out from the make-shift compartment. What's the good thing of this tray is that it makes your warding extractions faster. You can easily walk through the hallways swinging this tray in your hand. :-)
the WHITE WARDING TRAY
The good thing of getting big warding trays is that you can also take the big waste container (that yellow one where you put the used syringe, alcohol swabs, gloves). It doesn't require too much refilling from time to time. Just after your shift is done.
the BLACK tray
This tray is used for home service requests, This contains enough supplies for extraction. There is a butterfly syringe set in this tray in case of patients who have fragile veins. This is lightweight too and keeps the samples secure for transport.
At the end of the shift, the phlebotomist refills his ammunitions for the next day. This is to make sure that as another blood war comes, he is ready to take his shield whenever the call arises.
