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EmailPhlebotomy for Healthcare Professionals
- Date: February 23, 2013
- Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Location: Nebraska Methodist College – The Josie Harper Campus, Clark Building, 720 North 87th Street, Omaha, NE 68114
Target Audience
Healthcare professionals who are interested in training in phlebotomy and who are currently performing phlebotomy procedures or anticipating performing these in the future.
Cost
List Price: $280
Cost: $98 with promo code 65PD
Methodist and Jennie Ed employees please use the 2013 health system promo code for a 100% discount.
Course Description
This six-hour course is offered for health care professionals currently performing phlebotomy procedures or anticipating performing these in the future. Topics include types of blood specimens, blood collection equipment, specimen collection techniques for venipuncture, complications and remedies, special collection procedures, safety regulations and quality assurance as related to phlebotomy. Venipuncture on practice arms and fellow participants will be included.
Purpose Statement: To present information on blood specimen types, equipment and techniques, complications and remedies, safety regulations and quality assurance to health care professionals currently performing phlebotomy procedures or anticipating performing these in the future.
Text:
Di Lorenzo, M.S. & Strasinger, S.K. (2010). Blood Collection: A Short Course (2nd Ed). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company. This text is required. This text is available in the Nebraska Methodist College bookstore, (402) 354-7240.
Participants will be able to:
- Describe blood collection equipment and explain correct specimen labeling, transport and storage for laboratory testing.
- Practice routine venipuncture using an evacuated tube system, syringe and butterfly needle.
- Describe remedies to venipuncture technique complications.
- Discuss safety regulations and quality assurance procedures required by OSHA and laboratory regulatory agencies.
Agenda
| Time | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 10:15 am | Introduction to Blood Collection |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am | Venipuncture Equipment |
| 11:30 - 12:15 pm | Venipuncture Technique |
| 12:15 - 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 1:45 pm | Venipuncture Complications |
| 1:45 - 2:15 pm | Special Procedures |
| 2:15 - 2:25 pm | Break |
| 2:25 - 4:00 pm | Venipuncture Practice |
| 4:00 - 4:10 pm | Evaluations |
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Speakers
Marjorie DiLorenzo, MT (ASCP), SH is the phlebotomy program coordinator for Nebraska Methodist College, is a registered medical technologist and specialist in hematology by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists.
Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development awards educational credit to the disciplines listed below. Each professional is accountable to understand their accrediting/licensing body's standards and requirements. The definitive source of information on continuing education requirements is your state or national regulatory board.
In order to obtain contact hours or CEU's for a continuing education event, participants are required to attend the entire event and return a completed evaluation.
Nurses:
6.0 contact hours awarded. Master Code #NE10-13C32.
Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Nebraska Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Medical Assistants:
Application for credit for medical assistants has been made to the American Association of Medical Assistants and is pending.
Education Credit:
6.0 Education hours. Nebraska Methodist College Professional Development assigns education hours based on 60 minutes of classroom instruction for each offering. Participants may use these for their professional continuing education hours and toward re-licensure if so approved within the standards and guidelines of their discipline.
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