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Phlebotomy Today — August 2010
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This Month:
Hand Hygiene — What Every Phlebotomist MUST Know, Part I
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Specimen labeling errors
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Fall Webinars
Tip of the Month: Winning One for the Home Team
Phlebotomy Today — July 2010
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This Month:
CDC Makes Phlebotomy Best Practices Recommendations
From the Editor’s Desk
Center Featured in MLO Cover Story
Center Posts Free Order of Draw Article
Center Embraces Social Media
According to the Standards: Sodium citrate carryover/Sample labeling by hand
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Blood Specimen Collection FAQs book
Tip of the Month: Phlebotomy’s Seven Deadly Sins
Phlebotomy Today — June 2010
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This Month:
Patients Prefer Nurses over Physicians to Draw Their Blood
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Slapping the puncture site
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Updated Phlebotomy Training DVDs
Tip of the Month: Ready or Not, Here I Come
Phlebotomy Today — May 2010
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This Month:
Identifying and Correcting Patient and Specimen ID Errors
Center Names Program Coordinator
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Analyte differences between capillary and venous blood
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Center Announces 2010 Webinar Schedule
Tip of the Month: Let Your Reality Show
Phlebotomy Today — April 2010
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This Month:
The Patients’ Bill of Rights: A Healthy Afterlife
Recognizing Phlebotomists During Lab Week
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Skin Puncture Through Bruised Heels
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Center Announces 2010 Webinar Schedule
Tip of the Month: What’s in Your Suitcase?
Phlebotomy Today — March 2010
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This Month:
Cops Drawing Blood: Coming to a Sobriety Checkpoint Near You?
Center Seeks Phlebotomy Program Coordinator
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Site prep solutions for blood alcohol levels
Joint Commission Announces Free Teleconference
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Phlebotomy Tips Card
Tip of the Month: How to Hemolyze a Blood Sample
Phlebotomy Today — February 2010
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This Month:
Promoting Phlebotomy Professionalism: One Laboratory’s Strategy for Success
Special Report: Haiti Earthquake Relief Update
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Revised Order of Draw
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Order of Draw Pens
Tip of the Month:Ten Things You Should Never Say to Your Patient
Phlebotomy Today — January 2010
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This Month:
How Creativity Corrupts Phlebotomy
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Reusing Needles
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Collection Protection download
Tip of the Month: They’re Called Stress Balls for a Reason
Phlebotomy Today — December 2009
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This Month:
How Blood Collection Errors Threaten Patients
From the Editor’s Desk
Center Names Online Education Director
According to the Standards: Repalpating a cleansed site
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Phlebotomy Answer Book
Tip of the Month: Having a Pathogen Potluck?
Phlebotomy Today — November 2009
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This Month:
Eight Questions Everyone Who Draws Blood MUST Answer Correctly, Part 4
From the Editor’s Desk
Center Launches Redesigned Web Site
According to the Standards: Proper inpatient identification
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: To The Point® downloads
Tip of the Month: Of All the Nerve
Phlebotomy Today — October 2009
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This Month:
Eight Questions Everyone Who Draws Blood MUST Answer Correctly, Part 3
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Preassembling collection devices
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Venipuncture Procedure Template
Tip of the Month: Trick or Treat
Phlebotomy Today — September 2009
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This Month:
Eight Questions Everyone Who Draws Blood MUST Answer Correctly, Part 2
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Outpatient drawing areas
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Free Procedure Template with Skin Puncture Video
Tip of the Month: You and Gauze: a Love Story
Phlebotomy Today — August 2009
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This Month:
Eight Questions Everyone Who Draws Blood MUST Answer Correctly, Part 1
NCA and ASCP Board of Registry Merge
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Skin punctures to the big toe
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Infant Heelstick Training Models
Tip of the Month: Short-Changed by Short Draws
Phlebotomy Today — July 2009
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This Month:
Career Ladder for Phlebotomists
Are You Career-Ladder Material?
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Infant fingersticks
Phlebotomy in the News
FAQ Book a Finalist in Design Competition
Product Spotlight: Blood Specimen Collection FAQs
Tip of the Month: Mind the Gap
Phlebotomy Today — June 2009
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This Month:
Survey Sheds New Light on Blood Splash Exposures
Joint Commission Considers Relaxing Patient ID Requirements
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Icing blood gas specimens
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Advanced Venipuncture Training Aid
Tip of the Month: Brother, Can You Spare Some Time?
Phlebotomy Today — May 2009
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This Month:
Decentralized vs. Centralized Phlebotomy
Phlebotomy Today Subscriptions Reorganized
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: High potassium in lithium heparin tubes
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Poster Trio
Tip of the Month: Ten Truths about Syringe Draws
Phlebotomy Today — April 2009
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This Month:
The Geriatric Touch
Center Seeks Phlebotomy Program Coordinator
Just Write for Lab Week
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Hemolysis and IV draws
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Arterial Blood Gas Collection DVD
Tip of the Month: Red Light, Green Light
Phlebotomy Today — March 2009
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This Month:
Joint Commission Moves Toward Stricter Patient ID Requirement
Just Write for Lab Week
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Heelstick, depth of puncture
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Skin Puncture Procedure Template
Tip of the Month: What’s in it for you?
Phlebotomy Today — February 2009
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This Month:
Accuracy in GTT Collections
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Fingerstick site and wiping the first-drop
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Manager’s Toolbox
Tip of the Month: Spotting a Winner
Phlebotomy Today — January 2009
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This Month:
Is Your Draw Station Kid-Friendly?
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Finger Positioning
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Discounted Polos, T-shirts, Markers, Travel Mugs
Tip of the Month: Begin with the End in Mind
Phlebotomy Today — December 2008
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This Month:
Phlebotomy Turnaround Times: How Fast is Fast Enough?
From the Editor’s Desk
CLSI Releases Revised Skin Puncture Standard
Ernst to Speak in Oslo, Norway
According to the Standards: Phlebotomy Chair Safety
Phlebotomy in the News
Ask the Lab Guy
Product Spotlight: CLSI Skin Puncture Standard
Tip of the Month: Peace on Earth
Phlebotomy Today — November 2008
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This Month:
The Pediatric Bandaging Dilemma: One Laboratory’s Solution
Effects of Fist Pumping Underestimated
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Earlobes and Skin-Punctures
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: VHS to DVD upgrade
Phlebotomy Today Publisher Offers Amnesty
Tip of the Month: A Tangled Web
Phlebotomy Today — October 2008
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This Month:
What Every Healthcare Professional MUST Know About Drawing Coags
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Post-Mastectomy Patient
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Free Infant Foot Training Model with Video Purchase
Tip of the Month: Five Truths about Post-Venipuncture Care
Phlebotomy Today — September 2008
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This Month:
Journals Ablaze with Venipuncture Studies/Articles
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Is drawing above an IV acceptable?
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: To the Point® CE exercises
Tip of the Month: The Wizard of Aahs!
Phlebotomy Today — August 2008
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This Month:
Effects of Pneumatic Transportation on Blood Specimens
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Drawing from Triple-Lumen Catheters
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Infant Heelstick Model
Tip of the Month: How Cultured Are You?
Phlebotomy Today — July 2008
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This Month:
Tourniquets Tied to MRSA Threat
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Hand-labeling specimens
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Free DVD Player with Video Purchase
Tip of the Month: What Kind of Fly are You?
Phlebotomy Today — June 2008
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This Month:
Preventing Repeat Heelsticks
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Bending the Patient’s Arm Up
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Venipuncture Procedure Template
Tip of the Month: Sir Lance Alot
Phlebotomy Today — May 2008
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This Month:
Discernment and the Difficult Draw
From the Editor’s Desk
On a Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Drawing Patients on Exam Tables
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: New Downloads
Tip of the Month: Just a Phlebotomist
Phlebotomy Today — April 2008
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This Month:
Studies Shed Light on ED Hemolysis, Decentralized Phlebotomy
From the Editor’s Desk
According to the Standards: Order of draw and citrate tubes
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Phlebotomy Central
Tip of the Month: Catch Me If You Can
Phlebotomy Today — March 2008
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This Month:
Monthly Article: Is Your Draw Station Designed for Safety?
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Order of draw and clot activators
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Lab Week Items
Tip of the Month: Fear Factor
Phlebotomy Today — February 2008
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This Month:
Newborn Screens: Why and How?: Part II
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Separate Order of Draw for Syringes?
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Skin Punctures & Newborn Screens video
Tip of the Month: Anticipation or Precipitation?
Phlebotomy Today — January 2008
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This Month:
Newborn Screens: Why and How?
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Nursing Home Identification
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Skin Punctures & Newborn Screens video
Tip of the Month: WANTED!
Phlebotomy Today — December 2007
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This Month:
CLSI Revises Venipuncture Standard
Product Spotlight: Free Venipuncture Standard
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Is a tourniquet always necessary?
Phlebotomy in the News
Center Releases Second Volume in CE Series
Tip of the Month: A Run for the Roses
Phlebotomy Today — November 2007
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This Month:
How Collection Personnel Unknowingly Alter Test Results, Part III: Hemolysis
Center Creating Expert Witness Database
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards:Documenting Newborn Blood Withdrawal
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Venipuncture Training Aid
Center Adds to CEU Offerings
Tip of the Month: Deal or No Deal?
Phlebotomy Today — October 2007
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This Month:
How Collection Personnel Unknowingly Alter Test Results, Part II: Time-of-Collection Errors
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards:Proper Patient Positioning
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Articles for Download
Tip of the Month: It Only Takes a Moment
Phlebotomy Today — September 2007
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This Month:
How Collection Personnel Unknowingly Alter Test Results, Part I: Hemoconcentration
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Arterial Punctures for Routine Lab Work
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: PhlebotomyWeb online training
Tip of the Month: What Not to Wear
Phlebotomy Today — August 2007
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This Month:
Taking the Initiative with Phlebotomy
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Not all veins are fair game
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: 100% Cotton T-Shirts
Tip of the Month: Investing in Quality
Phlebotomy Today — July 2007
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This Month:
If Tubes Could Talk: Part IV, Interview with a Green Top
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Checking for hematoma
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Affordable CEUs in Phlebotomy
Tip of the Month: And the Two Shall Become One
Phlebotomy Today — June 2007
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This Month:
If Tubes Could Talk: Part III, Interview with a Lavender Top
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Applying Pressure
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight: Anatomy Poster with CE Option
Tip of the Month: What’s Your Risk Score?
Phlebotomy Today — May 2007
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This Month:
If Tubes Could Talk, Part II: Interview with a Red Top
Haitian Ministry in Need of Surplus EDTA Tubes
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Angle of Insertion
Phlebotomy in the News
Product Spotlight:Ten Commandments of Phlebotomy Poster
Tip of the Month: Never-Never Land
Phlebotomy Today — April 2007
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This Month:
Recognizing Phlebotomists During Lab Week
If Tubes Could Talk, Part I: Interview with a Blue Top
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Ammonia Inhalants
Phlebotomy in the News
Ask the Safety Lady
Product Spotlight: Lab Week Items
Tip of the Month: Recipe for a Phlebotomist
Phlebotomy Today — March 2007
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This Month:
Phlebotomy Training in South Africa
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards: Wiping off alcohol
Phlebotomy in the News
Ask the Safety Lady
Product Spotlight: Lab Week Items
Tip of the Month: Standard Eyes
Phlebotomy Today — February 2007
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This Month:
Feature Article: Blood Culture Collection, Part II
Five Factors that Lower Contamination Rates
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards
Phlebotomy in the News
Ask the Safety Lady
Product Spotlight Order of Draw Cards
Tip of the Month Just Say "No!"
Phlebotomy Today — January 2007
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This Month:
Feature Article: Blood Culture Collection, Part I
Blood Cultures: Protecting the Collector
From the Editor’s Desk
On A Personal Note...
According to the Standards
Phlebotomy in the News
Ask the Safety Lady
Product Spotlight CLSI Venipuncture Standard
Tip of the Month: The Last Line of Defense