Phlebotomy Program Goals

The Phlebotomy Certificate program prepares the student to draw blood and prepare it for testing by laboratory personnel. The program is designed to provide students with information about the health care delivery system, collection of materials and equipment, venipuncture and capillary puncture techniques, and medical, legal and ethical implications of blood collection.

This program prepares students to work as phlebotomists in a variety of health care settings such as acute care facilities, physicians' offices, hospital laboratories, long-term care facilities, clinics, and independent laboratories. Graduates of this program are able to

• explain the health care delivery system and recognize medical terminology;
• discuss infection control and safety;
• outline the anatomy and physiology of body systems;
• categorize the major areas/departments of the clinical;
• laboratory with the laboratory tests ordered to evaluate a patient's pathologic condition/illness;
• relate the importance of specimen collection in the overall patient care system;
• identify collection equipment, various types of additives used, special precautions necessary, and substances that can interfere in clinical analysis of blood constituents;
• perform the proper techniques to perform venipuncture and capillary puncture;
• identify procedures for requisitioning, specimen transport, and specimen processing;
• apply quality assurance in phlebotomy; and
• employ the basic concepts of communication, personal and patient interaction, stress management, professional behavior, and legal implications of the work environment.