Specimen Collection Course
This course equips healthcare professionals with essential skills for accurate and safe specimen collection, covering blood, urine, and swab procedures to ensure reliable laboratory results and minimize errors.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Specimen Collection Course provides clear, practical training to help you collect blood, urine, and swab samples accurately and safely. Learn venepuncture technique, tube selection, order of draw, blood culture and coagulation sequences, patient ID and consent, fasting and preparation rules, haemolysis prevention, rejection criteria, and proper storage and transport so results remain reliable and errors are minimised.
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Develop skills
- Master venepuncture: choose tubes, order of draw, and prevent pre-analytic errors.
- Collect blood cultures and coagulation samples aseptically with correct sequence.
- Perform FBC, U&E, and lipid panel draws with proper preparation, mixing, and transport.
- Identify and manage haemolyzed, mislabelled, or rejected specimens using laboratory standards.
- Collect urine and swab specimens correctly, label, store, and transport for accuracy.
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