Specimen Collection Course
This course offers practical training in specimen collection techniques, focusing on blood, urine, and swab samples to ensure accuracy and safety in laboratory procedures.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Specimen Collection Course provides straightforward, hands-on training to assist you in collecting blood, urine, and swab samples properly and securely. You will learn venipuncture methods, selecting the right tubes, the sequence for drawing blood, procedures for blood cultures and coagulation, patient identification and consent, guidelines for fasting and preparation, ways to avoid hemolysis, criteria for rejecting samples, and correct storage and transportation to ensure reliable results and minimise mistakes.
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Develop skills
- Gain expertise in venipuncture: select appropriate tubes, follow the order of draw, and avoid pre-analytic errors.
- Collect blood cultures and coagulation samples in an aseptic manner using the proper sequence.
- Carry out draws for CBC, BMP, and lipid panels with correct preparation, mixing, and transportation.
- Recognise and handle hemolysed, mislabelled, or rejected specimens according to laboratory standards.
- Collect urine and swab specimens accurately, label them, store, and transport to maintain precision.
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