MEA0521 — PHLEBOTOMIST, MA: 75 Clock Hours
This course will help students to demonstrate accepted professional communication and interpersonal skills, discuss phlebotomy in relation to the health care setting, identify the anatomic structure and function of body systems in relation to services performed by a phlebotomist, recognize and identify collection reagents supplies, equipment and interfering chemical substances, demonstrate skills and knowledge necessary to perform phlebotomy, practice infection control following standard precautions, practice accepted procedures of transporting, accessioning and processing specimens, practice quality assurance and safety, and describe the role of the medical assistant with intravenous therapy in oncology and dialysis.