Overview
With a strong emphasis on hands-on learning, this highly practical text helps you develop the phlebotomy-related knowledge and skills you need to become a confident, competent health care professional. The Fifth Edition accelerates learning by following key topics immediately with relevant exercises, integrating workbook elements and textbook content to deliver a complete learning experience. The text covers the latest professional standards and competencies while thoughtfully connecting them to the realities of practice today. Step-by-step guidelines for more than 20 collection procedures are provided, along with real-life scenarios and prompts emphasizing the phlebotomist's legal and ethical role in patient care decisions. Full-color photographs highlight important steps and relevant equipment, while illustrations depict anatomical components critical to proper technique. In addition, the digital edition includes videos and interactive exercises ideal for today’s learners.
Full Product Details
Author: Lynn Hoeltke (Eskenazi Health, Indianapolis, Indiana)
Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
Imprint: Delmar Cengage Learning
Edition: 5th edition
Dimensions:
Width: 21.70cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 27.70cm
Weight: 0.862kg
ISBN: 9781337284240
ISBN 10: 1337284246
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 01 January 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By: 9780357932797
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
Lynn B. Hoeltke, M.B.A., M.L.S. (A.S.C.P.), P.B.T, D.L.M., most recently worked for a leading hospital laboratory in the Midwest. In addition to more than 40 years of experience in various laboratory leadership roles, Mr. Hoeltke has taught on the technical college level, developed and taught a nursing-based program for a hospital, including a phlebotomy video series for nurse training, and taught phlebotomy as a career development program for entry-level laboratory positions. He also has served as a phlebotomy advisor with corporations to develop infrared imaging as a tool to find veins for venipuncture, and he has consulted with several nursing homes and laboratories in teaching phlebotomy techniques to their staff. Mr. Hoeltke has published several magazine articles, has been a contributing textbook author for COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL ASSISTING, and is the author of multiple phlebotomy texts, including THE CLINICAL LABORATORY MANUAL SERIES: PHLEBOTOMY and PHLEBOTOMY: PROCEDURES AND PRACTICE by Delmar, Cengage Learning. He has also assisted in a Phlebotomy Skills Video Review production based on the procedures in his textbook.
