Laboratory Phlebotomy - Cuyahoga Community College

Laboratory Phlebotomy from Cuyahoga Community College is a Campus Certificate Clinical Laboratory degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. The Laboratory Phlebotomy Short Term Certificate is a skills-oriented program designed to educate and train persons to skillfully collect blood specimens in a variety of situations. The curriculum includes introduction to blood collection, special blood collecting techniques, medical terminology, medical ethics, asepsis, human biology, and an eight week period of clinical hands-on experience in a hospital or medical clinic. The skill of phlebotomy is part of the Medical Laboratory Technology (Clinical Laboratory Science) profession. Students can apply their technical credits in phlebotomy to the Associate Degree of Applied Science in Medical Laboratory Technology. This program is designed to prepare students to demonstrate the following program outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts of communications, personal and patient interaction, stress management, professional behavior, and the legal implications of this work environment. 2. Perform proper infection control techniques and safety measures to protect patient, co-workers and community. 3. Apply knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of body systems and anatomic terminology in order to relate major area of the clinical laboratory to general pathologic conditions associated with the body systems. 4. Demonstrate proper techniques using appropriate equipment to perform venipuncture and capillary puncture while maintaining quality assurance during and after specimen acquisition. 5. Meet eligibility requirements to sit for American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Board of Registry Examiniation or equivalent. View more details on Cuyahoga Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Clinical Laboratory courses.