Phlebotomist Lead - Inpatient, Full-Time, Days
Posted Sep 21, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 27, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about coaching someone who is not meeting standards.
What they are checking: The posting names coaching and performance improvement plans directly.
Tell me about interviewing and picking someone for a phlebotomy team.
What they are checking: The posting names assisting in hiring, training and evaluation.
Full time days in Chicago. How does that fit your life?
What they are checking: Honest fit with the schedule and location the posting states.
What would you do
A nurse and your phlebotomist disagree about whether a draw should happen now. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: The posting names problem solving both within and between departments.
How do you keep your team's accuracy up when the workload jumps?
What they are checking: Identification and labeling errors rise with pressure, and they are the worst errors in the laboratory.
How do you handle a patient who is frightened or refuses a draw?
What they are checking: Still the core of the job, and on an inpatient round it happens several times a morning.
About the work
Tell me about inpatient phlebotomy and how the morning round works.
What they are checking: Inpatient collection runs on a timed morning round, unlike an outpatient draw station.
How do you organize a team across a hospital so the morning draws are done in time?
What they are checking: The posting names day to day performance, organization and scheduling as their responsibility.
How do you get a sample from a patient nobody else has managed to draw?
What they are checking: The lead gets the difficult ones, and technique is the reason they hold the role.
How do you teach phlebotomy to someone who is struggling with difficult draws?
What they are checking: The posting names teaching procedures to less-skilled personnel.
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