In many health-care settings, the medical assistant is responsible
for collecting blood specimens from patients and
even performs some testing in the waived category. In
order to properly collect the specimens, you will need to
review the circulatory system and the function of blood. You will be introduced in this chapter to venipuncture and
capillary collection procedures, and you will learn the
appropriate supplies and equipment needed to perform
these procedures. You will also learn techniques for dealing
with different types of patients and how to efficiently
and effectively obtain blood samples. Additionally, you
will receive instruction on the performance and screening
of common blood tests. |