Phlebotomy for Nurses and Nursing Personnel : What Every Nurse and Nursing Assistant Must Know About Blood Specimen Collection

This book presents basic phlebotomy techniques with one goal: to teach techniques and principles that protect the nurse from accidental needlesticks, protect the patient from injury, and result in the collection and transportation of high-quality spceimens to the laboratory.

CONTENTS:
Phlebotomy as a nursing procedure: managing the risk
Site selection and equipment
The venipuncture
Alternative sites, blood culture collections, phlebotomy liability
Capillary punctures, pediatric venipunctures
Specimen handling and storage
Managing exposures to bloodborne pathogens
Practices and products for exposure prevention