Phlebotomy Technician
Skin Puncture Procedures
Cost of course : $29.99
CEUs earned upon successful completion : 2
Description
This course will cover skin puncture procedure techniques, how to work with laboratory specimens in a safe way and how to care for the post puncture site. This course ensures the phlebotomists competency as required by CLIA which ensures a quality patient outcome.
Upon successful completion of this course you will earn 2 continuing education units.
You will be able to print your certificate immediately upon completion. The cost of this CDPH-LFS accredited course is $29.99.
Objectives
- Describe reasons for performing a skin puncture procedure
- List the indications / advantages for performing Skin Punctures in pediatric and adult populations
- Describe and explain the decontamination process and the agents used to decontaminate skin for routine blood tests
- Describe the various features needed on skin puncture lancets and micro collection devices.
- Discuss the types of equipment and supplies that must be used during micro-collection of infants and children
- Describe the correct order of steps in the performance of a Skin Puncture.
- Describe the proper lancet insertion depth for Skin Puncture and explain why controlling the depth of the puncture is necessary
- Describe fears or concerns that children in different development stages might have toward the blood collection process
- Identify puncture sites for a heel stick on an infant and describe the procedure
- Explain why blood from a skin puncture procedure is different from blood taken by venipuncture
- Describe the procedure for screening neonates for phenylketonuria (PKU)
- Describe the equipment that is used and personnel responsible for performing the bleeding-time test.
- Describe the process of making a blood smear
- Discuss the purpose and methodology for puncture site warming.
- Identify laboratory tests that have a different reference values when collected by skin puncture.
- Identify tests that cannot be performed by skin puncture.
- List acceptable and unacceptable sites for Skin Puncture on adult and pediatric patients.
- Describe the labeling of micro collection specimens.
- List the order of draw for skin puncture specimens.
- List the tests most commonly done on skin puncture specimens.
- Describe the procedure and rationale for post-puncture care of a skin puncture
