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First Things First: Pre-Collection Essentials for Safe Blood Draws
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Session Purpose
To equip medical laboratory professionals with the knowledge and skills required to ensure patient safety, proper test alignment, and readiness before venipuncture.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants should be able to:
- Explain the importance of hand hygiene and infection prevention in blood collection.
- Review and verify test requests to ensure clinical appropriateness.
- Accurately identify patients and assess their suitability for blood collection.
- Prepare equipment and label tubes correctly to avoid pre-analytical errors.
- Position patients appropriately and apply personal protective correctly.
