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

flexible workload from 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 correctly and safely. You will learn venipuncture methods, selecting the right tubes, the order of draw, sequences for blood cultures and coagulation, patient identification and consent, rules for fasting and preparation, preventing hemolysis, criteria for rejecting samples, and appropriate storage and transport to ensure reliable results and minimise errors.
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Develop skills
- Master venipuncture: select tubes, follow the order of draw, and avoid pre-analytic errors.
- Collect blood cultures and coagulation samples aseptically using the correct sequence.
- Perform CBC, BMP, and lipid panel draws with proper preparation, mixing, and transport.
- Identify and handle hemolyzed, mislabeled, or rejected specimens according to laboratory standards.
- Collect urine and swab specimens properly, label them, store, and transport for accurate results.
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