If it wasn’t clear, I’m saying this isn’t repeatable and trainable, this is one person who constantly uses butterfly needles, probably outpatient, busy facility, and they’ve been doing this a long time. It’s the phlebotomy equivalent of quick solving a rubics cube, or close up card magic. Muscle memory and a ton of practice. It’s not some special technique you’re just going to pick up with a YouTube video, even if she explained it.
If it’s not trainable then it should not be done. We can’t have techniques out there that can not broken down into trainable steps. For a good reason of maintaining the health of the person having the blood taken, the nurse and the end recipient of the blood. There are procedures for this task for reasons.
It is trainable. Most western medical practitioners feel like it is not worth their time to master such a skill. There are training videos out there. It involves basically spending hundreds if nothing thousands of hours of flicking a needle into a practice target over and over until it becomes a skilled muscle memory.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25
If it wasn’t clear, I’m saying this isn’t repeatable and trainable, this is one person who constantly uses butterfly needles, probably outpatient, busy facility, and they’ve been doing this a long time. It’s the phlebotomy equivalent of quick solving a rubics cube, or close up card magic. Muscle memory and a ton of practice. It’s not some special technique you’re just going to pick up with a YouTube video, even if she explained it.