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Congratulations to all of my students and those across the U.S. who have completed a nurse’s aide training program.  Now is the time to get ready to take your state exam.  Hopefully you have sent in your letters of course completion and have received your authorization to test.  It is very important for a nurse’s aide graduate to schedule their test date for state certification immediately after graduation.  This is due to the fact that the information that you have learned is still fresh in your mind as well as your clinical skills.  This is an exciting time.  Soon you will earn your nurse aide certification and your name will be placed with all the other nurse’s aides on the national registry.

Feeling nervous prior to a test is normal.  Actually, a certain amount of stress is good.  However, when the stress becomes overwhelming, the student’s exam and clinical performance can suffer.  To prevent this from occurring, the graduate nurse’s aide should practice their skills on friends and family while talking out loud and going through all of the steps.

Speaking your way through each of the skills helps to relieve anxiety.  It is just like performing on a stage.  You need to practice your lines and actions and most importantly, study, study, study.  Ask your instructors where to obtain practice tests.  The student will perform better on the exam when they practice their skills and knowledge.

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PHLEBOTOMY CAREER TRAINING COURSE CATALOG 2009 Volume 1
School Address; 28050 Ford Road Suite C, Garden City, MI 48135
Central Address: 28050 Ford Road Suite C, Garden City, MI 48135
Administrator: Nancy L. Kimmel RN, PhD, CHMM, Certified Phlebotomy Instructor by the (American Certification Agency for Helathcare Professionals), Certified Train the Trainer for Michigan CENAS
Nancy L. Kimmel: R.N, PhD, CHMM, CTT,
Instructor of Phlebotomy Training/Nursing Assistant Training (Check out the new tuition rates as of January 1, 2010)

Courses Begin September 24th 2009 and run every 6 weeks.

Phlebotomy Technician Program
Phlebotomy Technician Program Begins September 24th 2009 and ends November 5th 2009
PT Program 01 meets on Thursday from 8AM – 2:30 PM, and one 4hour Saturday class on Oct 24th from 8 -12 PM
PT Program 02 meets on Thursday from 3:00 PM – 9:30 PM and one 4 hour Saturday Class on Oct 24th that will meet from 2PM- 6PM

PT Program 03 meets on Thursday, November 12th from 8AM – 2:30 PM and ends on Tuesday December 22nd 2009, there will be one Saturday class for 4 hours on December 19th from 8 -12 PM
PT Program 04 meets on Thursday, November 12th from 3:00 PM – 9:30 PM and ends on Tuesday December 22nd 2009, with one Saturday Class on December 19th from 2PM -6PM

Nursing Assistant Program
Nursing Assistant Program Begins September 25th 2009 and ends November 7th 2009
NA Program 01 meets on Friday & Saturday from 8AM – 2:30 PM
NA Program 02 meets on Friday & Saturday from 3:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Three hours of added instruction will be included selected clinical sites
NA Program 03 meets on Friday& Saturday, November 13th from 8AM – 2:30 PM last day of class before Christmas is Dec 19th Classes resume on Sat Jan 2nd and end on Jan 9th
NA Program 04 meets on Friday & Saturday November 12th from 3:00 PM – 9:30 PM last day of class before Christmas is Dec 19th Classes resume on Sat Jan 2nd and end on Jan 9th

All tuition and fees paid by the applicant shall be refunded if the applicant is rejected by the school before enrollment. An applicant fee of not more than $25.00 may be retained by the school if the applicant is denied. All tuition and fees paid by the applicant shall be refunded if requested within three business days after signing a contract with the school. All refunds shall be returned within 30 days.

Enrollment dates: Students may register for classes up until the first day of class. There is limited seating capacity, so students are encouraged to enroll prior to classes start date.
Students will meet twice a week for two days of clinical rotation for 8 hours each day. Sites will vary due to availability and site needs. Students will be provided with site details one week prior.

Entrance Requirements for the Phlebotomy Technician Program

Students that are interested in enrolling in this program are required to have a high school diploma or GED. They must be able to pass a criminal background check. Some patient care experience is preferred but is not required. Students must be able to have good communication and memorization skills, think under pressure and have a compassionate nature. By the third week of classes, students are required to have their immunization titers on file for MMR and Chicken pox as well as their TB tests.

Entrance Requirements for the Nursing Assistant Program

Students that are interested in the nursing assistant program are required to have a high school diploma or GED. They must be able to pass a criminal background check. Students are required to have all immunizations up to date and bring in proof of immunization records. Students are required to have their TB test and MMR and Chicken pox titers on file by the end of the second week of classes. Some patient care experience is preferred but not required. Students should have a caring and compassionate nature.

Policy for absences, leaves, tardiness, make-up work, and suspension for unsatisfactory work or attendance and re-entrance conditions.

Students are required to be on time for each class and at least 15 minutes to a half an hour early for clinical. If a student is late more than ten minutes to clinical or class they must provide the instructor with prior notice via instructors phone and provide a written explanation for their tardiness. Students late a second time for clinical or class are subject to dismissal from the program. Students whose performance is less than a C on two or more consecutive tests are subject to dismissal from the program. If a student is found to be unruly or insubordinate, uses profane language or disrupts the class will be subject to dismissal from the program. The following rules apply to onsite clinical locations as well as in class;

Rules of Student Conduct

1. Student shall conduct themselves in a professional manner at all times, obeying facility rules and regulations.
2. At no time will profanity or obscene gestures be tolerated.
3. Due to HIPPA laws and other patient privacy acts, students shall at no time discuss patients illness, use patient’s name or research any data not pertinent to the course in public places unless in the confines of a conference room or other private quarters.
4. Students shall treat all equipment with care, and shall use said equipment in the manner that it is intended.
5. Due to the intensive nature of the course and the possibilities of contracting illnesses from blood borne pathogens as well as the invasive procedures that are administered to patients, Students shall not hold the institution, directors, instructors or any other governing body liable in any way, shape or form in lieu of contracting any of the illnesses or accidents and shall be sole responsible for any injury sustained
6. Student’s understand the nature of the course and the seriousness of the invasive procedures and acknowledge that they will be sufficiently prepared with knowledge of the disease process, blood borne pathogens and universal precautions, (See course description) prior to clinical rotation, and shall notify instructor if in fact they do not feel ready to participate in clinical rotation.
7. Students acknowledge that they will use care, be gentle and kind with all patients, respecting them and treating them with dignity at all times.
8. Students will dress accordingly at all times respecting their profession and other professionals by not wearing excessive make up, exposing tattoos, wearing acrylic nails, jeweled nails, hoop earrings, nose rings, tongue rings, or lip rings, exposing cleavage and or undergarments.

9. Students acknowledge that non-compliance with any of the above rules and regulations will result in dismissal from said Phlebotomy Program or Nursing Assistant Program.

10. Male students shall be clean shaven to class and clinical, or if sporting a beard or mustache shall have them properly groomed and trimmed.

11. Earrings shall be no more than studs.

Disciplinary Policy
The following offenses are among those considered by health care affiliates to be serious
enough to warrant immediate discharge, depending on the
circumstances. We also consider these serious and, as students in health occupations, you
will be held to these same disciplinary policies.
• Proven theft.
• Striking a fellow worker, patient, student or instructor.
• Walking off the clinical site without permission of the supervisor, preceptor, or
instructor.
• Direct insubordination; refusal to do assigned duties.
• Use of illicit drugs during clinical/externship hours.
• Use of intoxicating beverages during clinical/externship hours.
• Disclosure of confidential information through any means.
• Professional incompetence.
• Fighting.
• Immoral actions while on campus, at the clinical site, or related meeting or function.
• Verbal or written unprofessional and/or profane language.
• Intentionally falsifying records.
• Cheating in the classroom or clinical setting.
• Endangering fellow workers/patients/ students through violation of safety rules or
committing generally recognized unsafe acts.
• Deliberate damage to, or defacing of, affiliate or school property.
• Harassment of any kind directed at fellow students, patients, affiliate workers, or
college workers.
• Interfering with the work of other students or workers.
• Interference in an interaction between another worker/student and his/her instructor
or supervisor.
• Excessive absences as described in syllabus.
• Not following rules outlined or jeopardizing the program of other students in any way.
• Failure to comply with facility or school policies including those identified in the
syllabus.
If the infraction occurs at the affiliate and immediate discharge seems warranted the
student will be sent home and advised that the Program Director and/or the Division
Associate Dean/designee will contact him/her.
Failure to follow facility or program policy and procedure may result in one or more of the
disciplinary actions below:
• Written warning by the instructor and /or supervisor.
• Program or academic probation.
• Immediate dismissal if behavior is still not corrected by the next grading period.
Cheating: Students who have cheated in the classroom or clinical setting will receive a
zero (0) grade for that test/evaluation. Students will not be allowed to retake (for points)
any test/evaluation on which they have cheated and will be immediately dismissed from the program.

Re-entrance into the program may be initiated when due to early termination for illness or emergency with a formal meeting with the director and written notification of why student had to leave program and reasoning for re-admission consideration. Students may be readmitted into the program with no more than 4 weeks lapse after leaving. If student has passed more than 4 weeks out of the program, the student is required to repeat the program from the beginning. Students who have been dismissed from the program for any reason or of the aforementioned reasons are not eligible for re-admission.

Leave of absence: Students are required to complete the program without any lapse in time. If a student must drop out of the program, they may only retain their place if they are less than 4 weeks out. More than 4 weeks absence, the student must begin the program again.

Make-up work: Due to the sensitive nature of the programs in regard to performing invasive procedures and direct patient care, there is no make-up work. All work must be completed in class and homework must be turned in on time.
Grading System: The grading system is based on the traditional grading system as follows;
90-100 A, 80-89 B, 70-79 C,<70 Failing
Students are required to earn a minimum grade of B on all tests in the Phlebotomy and a minimum grade of C in all Nursing Assistant Tests.

Clinical grades;
Students must receive 100% in all clinical and labs.

Tuition for each program:
Tuition for the Phlebotomy Program is $929
Students may receive a full refund after the first week of classes and a 50% refund after the third week, based on paying the full amount on the day of registration. Students may pay half down $464.50 on the first day of class and the other half at the beginning of the third week of class. Students that do not pay the balance at the third week of class may be dismissed from the program. There is no enrollment fee.

Miscellaneous Fees: Phlebotomy students are required to wear navy blue scrubs to each class, white tennis shoes, watch, they are to bring a box of latex gloves or non-latex is they think that they may have a latex allergy. Students are required to have a white knee length lab coat for clinical site rotation.

Tuition for the Nursing Assistant Program;
The cost of the nursing assistant program is $1200 dollars. Students are required to pay the amount in full on the first day of class. Students are entitled to a %100 refund during the first week of class, and a %50 refund on the third week of class based on the entire amount. If students choose the payment program, and choose to pay half down $600 the first day of class, then by the third week they are not entitled to any refund and are required to pay the balance on the third week of class, or they will be dismissed if no payment is made.

Miscellaneous Fees: Nursing Assistant students are required to wear light blue scrubs to each class, white tennis shoes, watch, they are to bring a box of latex gloves or non-latex is they think that they may have a latex allergy. Students are required to have a white knee length lab coat for lab practicum.

Hazards in the workplace;

HAZARDS AND RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH
CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST AND TECHNICIAN CAREERS
(INCLUDING PHLEBOTOMY TECHNICIAN) and Nursing Assistant
According to the US Department of Labor Occupational Outlook Handbook:
“Clinical laboratory personnel are trained to work with infectious
specimens. When proper methods of infection control and
sterilization are followed, few hazards exist. Protective masks,
gloves, and goggles are often necessary to ensure the safety of
laboratory personnel.
Laboratories usually are well lighted and clean; however, specimens,
solutions, and reagents used in the laboratory sometimes produce fumes.
Laboratory workers may spend a great deal of time on their feet.”
The career of phlebotomy technician includes the general health care risks listed on the
previous page, as well as the following:

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Students need some extra help in studying for the various tests that are currently out there. Unfortunately there is not enough reliable resources on the internet to help students sufficiently prepare for the nursing entrance tests. Even the companies that produce them, such as ATI, (ERI World), and others do not give students the necessary information. The only online practice tests that they give are such that the student has only a few hours or days to practice, then the service is turned off. The fee is sizable for their service. Here at the Nurses Learning Center, students can access tests that include Anatomy and Physiology, Biology, Chemistry, English Grammar, Reading Comprehension, and Mathematics. Over one thousand questions and answers are available to the students. They can track their test scores and determine their weak points. There is no limit, and the service does not terminate. The student can simply access the internet then  begin their practice testing anytime throughout the day or night.

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Students have to pass the TEAS, the HESI and the NET to get into nursing school. Finding the right tutorial can be frustrating. Now, students can have unlimited access to online tests that will help them to prepare for any nursing entrance test

“Too many students find my site after the fact.  They have failed either the HESI, TEAS or the NET more than one time and they are desperate.  I have had more than one conversation that centered around helping a student calm down and gain confidence.”

Nursing schools throughout the country are beginning to require a formal standardized nursing entrance test.  Pre-nursing students must pass these tests if they want their names on the waiting list for nursing school.  There is quite a long waiting list.  The average time frame for nursing school admission is anywhere from 2 to 4 years.  These figures represent the average of community college wait lists.  Colleges request that the pre nursing students take an entrance exam so that their names can be placed on the wait list.  Some schools require the exam entitled the HESI, while others require the exam called the TEAS.  Each of these exams are standardized in the curriculum which the students are tested.  Both tests include the following subjects; anatomy and physiology, biology, chemistry, English grammar, reading comprehension and mathematics.  Determining how to study for these tests can be challenging, especially when the actual study guides for each of the tests are not always very helpful if the student needs remedial assistance in certain subject matter.  The truth is that the two tests are very similar in their subject tests.  The company that produces the HESI still produces the NET.  The companies are very convoluted in who they actually are, since they are constantly changing their corporate names and headquarters.  Nursing schools are simply looking for a standardized nursing entrance test.  Many are requiring the nursing entrance tests that are more comprehensive than the original NET, which only includes math and reading comprehension.

One should not be surprised to see more and more nurse entrance tests emerging in the next few months.  With the job market skyrocketing in the health care field, many companies are going to emerge that will focus their energies on developing nurse entrance tests, or other generalized health care related entrance tests.  Students should always be prepared with the most up to date and comprehensive study tools.  The internet is filled with many loop holes, twists and turns that can frustrate the best of us who are looking for real documented, well written study texts.   Unfortunately there are study texts out there that promise much but deliver little in the way of preparatory material.  With such comprehensive subject matter, one could spend months studying for the HESI and TEAS.  The student should not panic, but remember that the best tests are written to encompass the main focus of all the subjects.  That should help to narrow the amount of study time needed.

For the most part, both the HESI and the TEAS are counterparts of each other.  Both include the same test subject matter and both are for nursing entrance admission tests.  The key is to find a study guide that will give a comprehensive tutorial on all subjects without being too lengthy.  The book entitled, “Pass The NET” does just that.  It is written with an emphasis on the nursing process.  This implies that the subject material is close to that which first year nursing students must know, with review of the body systems relating to the nursing process.  Which ever test, the HESI or the TEAS a student must challenge, using the book, “Pass The NET” will be a positive step at raising their scores as well as preparing them for the first year of nursing school.

Best wishes in your life’s journey.

Author, Nancy Kimmel RN, Phd, CHMM, CNAT, CPI

Phlebotomy Career Training 2009

All Materials Copyright, Phlebotomy Career Training, 2009, Nancy Kimmel RN, PhD, CHMM, CNAT CPI

Phlebotomy Career Training

Final Exam 200 Points

Name:_______________

1. When going into an isolation room the healthcare worker must don personal protective equipment in which of the following orders?

a. Gloves, gown, goggles, mask

b. Gown, gloves, goggles, mask

c. Gown, mask, goggles, gloves

2. When leaving the isolation room the healthcare worker must doff their equipment in which of the following orders?

a. Gown, gloves, goggles, mask

b. Goggles, mask, gloves, gown

c. Mask, gloves, goggles, gown

3. When using a blue top tube, the following can be inferred.

a. The patient is a bleeder.

b. The lab could be a PT (Prothrombin Time) or PTT (Partial Thrombin Time) and the patient may have bleeding tendencies.

c. It is the first tube to be used if no blood cultures are ordered. The lab could be a PT (Prothrombin Time) or PTT (Partial Thrombin Time) and the patient may have bleeding tendencies.

4. The needle gage indicates the…

a. The size of the bevel

b. The length of the needle

c. The thickness of the needle

5. You walk into a room and see a child holding their doll tightly, looking away with fear. Your first approach would be to….

a. Walk up to the child and tell them what you are about to do, (explain venipuncture)

b. Get another phlebotomist or nurse to assist you with the child.

c. Greet the child with a smile and ask, “what is the name of your doll?”

6. You have just left the lab with your schedule of draws for the morning, and you notice a patient in a wheel chair crying quietly in the corridor. You would …….(see Phlebotomy Technician Certification Study Guide)

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