Intro To Phlebotomy 101

By Beatriz Reyna. KNOP-TV News 2 The Medical profession relies heavily on those who work behind the scenes and that includes medical lab technicians. Its projected Health Care reform will add 40 million people to the health care roster that will only add to the demand for ML-T’s. Beatriz Reyna shows us how North Platte Community College’s MLT’s hope to recruit potential students. When it comes to determining the health of a patient accuracy is vital. Eight students from Arcadia are learning just that through Mid-Plains Community College’s Mobile Education Lab. Martin Steinbeck, NPPC Medical Lab Tech Program Dir., says, “A lot of students grow up thinking it’s just about nursing and x-ray and they don’t really know about us and so this is our way of making the career more visible.” Students participated in a mock lab experiment where they tested for strep throat. Karalie Hickman, 12th Grade, says, “We had to do a test and it showed two pink lines if it was positive and one if you didn’t.” Panacea Fang, 12th Grade, says, “We can touch something we never did before and it lets me know more about the career instead of just knowing that it’s a lab or biology or something like that.” MLT’s hope more students will enlist in their program. Steinbeck says, “If your parents or you have to pay for the education go to one of the community colleges. Then you can transfer to the University of Nebraska at Kearney or the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and rather at working at …
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