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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Phlebotomy Handbook: Blood Collection Essentials
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This book is the most accurate and current source of blood and specimen collection information for today's health care professionals. Designed to provide health care professionals with clinical, technical, and communication skills and knowledge. Features sections devoted to safety; equipment and collection; special procedures and point of care testing; and quality and legal issues, and the latest information about the standards related to the Needlestick Prevention Act. Includes additional information about the risks and hazards to health care workers who collect blood specimens. Extensive discussion of age-related competencies, trans-cultural communication, and nonverbal and verbal communication strategies. Clinical alerts provided in each chapter warn readers about potentially dangerous situations in a procedure, process, or patient condition. Book News Annotation:A textbook for health care students and practitioners responsible for
blood and specimen collections. Recognizing the inflating role of
blood collectors to include additional patient care duties and
clinical responsibilities, it describes techniques, skills, and the
equipment both for the technical aspects and working within a
clinical environment. No dates are noted for earlier editions.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis: This is the most timely and comprehensive source of blood and specimen collection information available on the worldwide market. Provides today's health care professionals with the latest safety guidelines; condensed information about new federal regulations; updates on equipment and supplies; new NCCLS standards and hazard prevention techniques; and extensive coverage on transcultural communication skills for all ages. Medical Technologists, Medical Technicians, Medical Assistants, Specimen collection supervisors, Laboratory Managers/Directors, Nurses. Also, a valuable resource for hospital laboratories, out patient clinics, physicians' office practices, and emergency rooms. Table of Contents I. OVERVIEW. 1. Phlebotomy Practice and Quality Essentials.
2. Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues.
3. Basic Anatomy and Physiology of Organ Systems.
4. The Circulatory System.
II. SAFETY PROCEDURES AND EQUIPMENT. 5. Infection Control.
6. Safety and First Aid.
7. Specimen Documentation, Specimen Handling, and Transportation.
8. Blood Collection Equipment.
III. PHLEBOTOMY PROCEDURES. 9. Venipuncture Procedures.
10. Procedures for Collecting Capillary Blood Specimens.
11. Preanalytical Complications in Blood Collections.
IV. SPECIAL PROCEDURES AND POINT OF CARE TESTING. 12. Pediatric Procedures.
13. Arterial, Intravenous (IV), and Special Collection Procedures.
14. Elderly, Home, and Long-term Care Collections.
15. Urinalysis and, Body Fluids, and Other Specimens Collections.
16. Forensic Toxicology, Workplace Testing, Sports Medicine, and Related Areas.
APPENDICES. Finding a Job.
The Basics of Vital Signs.
CDC Recommendations for Hand-Hygiene In Health Care Including Antimicrobial Spectrum and Characteristics of Hand-Hygiene Antiseptic Agents.
Sample Procedure for Performance of a Routine Venipuncture.
Laboratory Assays and the Required Types of Anticoagulants.
Maximum Amounts of Blood to be Drawn from Patients Younger Than 14 Years.
OSHA Labeling Requirements.
Whole Blood or Aperesis Donation Procedure.
Units of Measurement and Symbols.
Formulas and Calculations.
Military Time (24-hour clock).
Basic Spanish for Specimen Collection Procedures.
Answers to Self Study Questions and Cases.
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