The idea of having your blood taken for testing can be daunting

 The idea of having your blood taken for testing can be daunting, but the experience is hardly ever as scary as you might imagine. Sister Jane Stebbing, an experienced nurse at Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital, guides you through the process.

Hey there, my name is Jane Stebbing,

 I'm one of the oncology sisters at the Guildford Norwood hospital.

 the first step is to assess the veins when the patient comes in we have a nice comfortable chair. usually, the patient knows which arm seems to be better than another one but if we can't find anything that's easily accessible we'll put a warming pad on for five to ten minutes just to make sure that the arm's nice warm encourages the veins to come up a bit quicker.  we then put the tourniquet on we've identified the vein so we give it a good clean 30 seconds with some chloroprene allow that to dry us for doing that we prepare the kit and the needle, we use a vacuum system so the needle is attached to a small tube with vacuum receiver on the end that needle is them just popped into the vein. so it's just a little scratch when the needle goes in. most people don't really notice the IV line is already attached with the receiver for the vacuum bottle. the bottles then go on the end of the vacuum receiver and each bottle is has a specific vacuum for the amount of blood. it needs the bottles to be color-coded for the different tests that are needed. and those bottles will be filled according to the request that the physician or the consultant has made.

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 at the end of that and we release the tourniquet pull the needle out gently and just pop a piece of gauze or cotton wool over the top and the patient usually holds that themselves for about a minute just a clot of the vein. so that it's more comfortable for them and then we just pop a plaster all over the top.

 if there are fears are in our anxieties associated with having any blood tests you don't need to be embarrassed or worried about it there are lots of ways we can make you feel more comfortable we can lie the chair down so that you can't see what we're doing and then if you feel faint you already lying down and obviously we talk to you all the way through to find out if you're having any problems most people find that it's not as bad as they thought it was going to be in the end but if you do then we've got lots of ways to help you deal with it.

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