Credentials in Phlebotomy demonstrate the development of skills for healthcare professionals who collect blood, urine, fecal specimens, seminal fluid, sputum, and other body specimens. They collect, label, package, transport, use lab equipment to test, enter data into computers, report on, and store body fluid specimen. Phlebotomists are employed in general medical and surgical hospitals, specialty hospitals, medical and diagnostic laboratories, ambulatory health care services, physicians offices, insurance carriers, state government offices, home health care services, blood donation facilities, and other facilities. Specifically, this badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the procedures and precautions for special blood collection purposes (blood culture, glucose tolerance testing, lactose tolerance testing, arterial blood gases, therapeutic drug monitoring, IV line collections, etc.).
