Ekg/Phlebotomy
The purpose of this course is to provide students with practical generic skills in the health occupations. After successfully completing this course students will be able to:
- Demonstrates an understanding of and apply wellness and disease concepts
- Effectivly describe cardiovascular system
- Identify legal and ethical responsibilities of an EKG assistant
- Demonstrates knowledge of, apply and use medical instrimentation modalities
- Perform patient care techniques in the health care facility
- Demonstrates phlebotomy practice and quality assessment basics
- Ethical, legal, and regulatory issues in phlebotomy
- Safety and infection control
- Handle documentation, specimen handling and transportation
- Blood collection equipment
- Venipuncture procedures
- Capillary blood specimens
- Pediatric and Geriatric procedures
- Special collections
- Discuss legal and ethical responsabilities
- Recognize and practice safety and security procedures
- Recognize and respond to emergency situations
- Recognize and practice infection control procedures
- Demonstrate computer literacy
- Demonsrate employability skills
- Demonstrate knowledge of blood born diseases, including AIDS
- Apply basic math and science skills
- Demonstrate proper evaluation of vital signs
- Identify signs and symptoms of disease
- Identify interventions necessary for different diseases
- Formulate scenario based problems
- Able to perform skills representative of major allied health areas
- Medical record keeping
- Book keeping
- Allied assisting related skills
- Use of a stethoscope for ausculation
- Master vital signs
- Completion of clinical hours torward certification
