Specimen Collection Course
This course equips learners with essential skills for safe and accurate specimen collection, covering blood, urine, and swab procedures to ensure reliable lab results.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Specimen Collection Course provides straightforward, hands-on training to enable you to collect blood, urine, and swab samples properly and without risk. You will learn venipuncture methods, selecting the right tubes, the sequence for drawing blood, procedures for blood cultures and coagulation tests, verifying patient identity and obtaining consent, guidelines for fasting and preparation, ways to avoid hemolysis, criteria for rejecting samples, and correct methods for storing and transporting specimens to ensure reliable results and minimise mistakes.
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Develop skills
- Master venipuncture by selecting appropriate tubes, following the order of draw, and avoiding pre-analytic errors.
- Collect blood cultures and coagulation samples in a sterile 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 properly, store, and transport to maintain precision.
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