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Abbreviated Teaching Modules
Do you struggle every month to find good material to put in front of your specimen collection staff? Those days are over. Meeting your facility’s requirement for monthly continuing education is easy with our Abbreviated Teaching Modules (ATMs). Our ATMs are short articles on a wide variety of topics your collection staff should know. Simply distribute them to your staff, collect the answers to the accompanying quiz, grade, file, and get on with your day. Nursing departments and educational facilities will also find our ATMs helpful for increasing understanding of phlebotomy-related topics.
Each ATM is downloaded in PDF format and comes with an answer key.
Blood Collector’s ATM — The Order of Draw
Code | #3201Price | $19.99
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There is a lot of misinformation surrounding the Order of Draw. Many healthcare personnel still do not know about or understand the importance of following the correct Order of Draw. Use this ATM to make sure staff understands this important procedure.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Hematoma Prevention
Code | #3202Price | $19.99
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Important techniques should be employed to prevent or reduce hematoma formation. Increase patient satisfaction and safety by using the techniques in this ATM™.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Tourniquet Time
Code | #3203Price | $19.99
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Does your staff know what happens to the analytes in a blood specimen if the tourniquet has been left in place longer than one minute? Many of those who collect blood specimens don’t know. Find out how your staff measures up.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Needlestick Prevention
Code | #3204Price | $19.99
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Safe equipment alone will not reduce the risk of a needlestick to its lowest possible level. Safe practices must be employed every time the procedure is performed. Is your entire staff on board with safety? Find out.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Hemolysis
Code | #3205Price | $19.99
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Problems with hemolyzed specimens? Lack of understanding may be the reason. This article explains what hemolysis is, how it impacts the patient, and how to prevent it.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Patient Identification
Code | #3206Price | $19.99
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Proper patient identification is one of the most widely ignored patient-care processes. Ignoring this important first step also has the most potential to do harm. Does your staff understand and follow proper patient identification? Find out.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Acceptable Sites for Venipuncture
Code | #3207Price | $19.99
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All veins are not fair game when it comes to venipuncture. Does your staff know the important precautions for vein selection? Find out with this educational module.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Blood Cultures Done Right
Code | #3208Price | $19.99
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Reduce blood culture contamination rates by increasing staff understanding of proper technique.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Hemoconcentration: What is it?
Code | #3210Price | $19.99
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Hemoconcentration can be a difficult concept to understand, yet those with blood specimen collection responsibilities must know what it is and how to prevent it. This article will help your staff understand how hemoconcentration can alter the specimens they are collecting.
Blood Collector’s ATM — The Aggressive Patient
Code | #3216Price | $19.99
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Violence in the work place is on the rise. Healthcare personnel can increase their safety by recognizing some of the clues exhibited by people who could potentially become aggressive.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Infants and Toddlers in the Healthcare Environment
Code | #3229Price | $19.99
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Infants and toddlers are easily frightened by new people and places. Use this ATM™ to help your staff understand the special concerns that must be addressed with these young patients.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Communicating With Elderly Patients
Code | #3233Price | $19.99
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Use this ATM™ to fulfill one of the requirements for continuing education in Age Specific Competencies. Communicating with Elderly Patients will help staff understand how to appropriately interact with senior adults.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Give Your Patients Their Personal Space
Code | #3234Price | $19.99
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Approaching a patient too abruptly can cause them to become anxious and uncooperative. Use this ATM™ to help your staff understand and show respect for a patient’s personal space.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Non-verbal Communication: What Message Are You Projecting?
Code | #3235Price | $19.99
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The way we speak, dress, maintain our supplies, and conduct ourselves speaks volumes about us and our employer. Sometimes staff need a little reminder about professionalism. This ATM can help.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Phlebotomist’s Guide to PICC Lines, Central Catheters, and Imbedded Ports
Code | #3248Price | $19.99
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Use this ATM™ to educate your phlebotomy staff in the important precautions to be observed when obtaining a blood specimen by venipuncture from a patient with a VAD. Discusses four different types of VADs.
Blood Collector’s ATM — Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Peaks and Troughs
Code | #3249Price | $19.99
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Coordinating a specimen collection around medication administration can be complicated, frustrating, and time consuming. Understanding is the key to collecting a specimen that accurately reflects the patient’s medication blood level.
Blood Collector’s ATM —Customer Service Excellence
Code | #3253Price | $19.99
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Patients aren’t often referred to as customers, but that is what they are. Use this ATM™ download to help your staff understand how to provide good customer service and avoid the pitfalls that cause patients to take their healthcare dollars to competing facilities.