Phlebotomy Exam Study Guides

OSHA/NIOSH workplace safety, HIPAA and PHI, scope of practice and ethics, QC for lab and point-of-care equipment, sharps/biohazard disposal, bloodborne pathogens standard, exposure control, transmission-based precautions, PPE, hand hygiene, emergency response, and documentation.

Patient identification and consent, requisition and order verification, cultural competence and communication, testing requirements (fasting, timing), tube selection, site selection, patient positioning, non-blood specimen collection instructions, and EMR/EHR documentation.

Equipment selection and quality checks, tourniquet application, site selection and palpation, antisepsis, venipuncture technique, order of draw, complications and their management, needle safety devices, tube inversion, dermal/capillary puncture, post-procedural care, and specimen labeling.

Blood culture collections, assisting with pediatric/geriatric and line-based collections, metabolic/newborn screening, blood donation phlebotomy, pediatric volume calculations, non-blood specimen collection, point-of-care testing, tolerance tests, blood alcohol collection, and drug screening.

Specimen preparation (centrifuging, aliquoting), specimen integrity and handling requirements, chain of custody, lab information systems, critical value recognition and reporting, result distribution, and patient re-collection.