MANDATORY

MULT 115

INFO SESSIONS

For Summer, 2010 registration, dates and locations for the information sessions will be posted here in January

Locations will be announced on the program website:
www.cscc.edu/phlebotomy

Registration for the information is NOT required. You must attend the information session prior to registration for MULT 115, or you will be removed from the class.

To make sure you are ready for registration for MULT 115, you MUST complete a fingerprinting for a background check AND have the restriction removed from your record. The forms for this can be found on the 3rd and 5th floors of Union Hall, and on the program website.

This NAACLS approved program is a 2-quarter sequence in which theory and skills are practiced in the classroom and campus laboratory environment and also in the clinical setting. Upon completion of the 2-quarter program, a certificate is awarded.

During the first quarter in MULT 115, students learn the theory associated with the collection of blood and practice the skill in the campus laboratory environment. In addition, the student participates in a 40-hour clinical experience in an outpatient setting in which 40 unaided, successful blood collections are performed. In this experience, students are exposed to a variety of patient types and blood collection techniques. Students begin this experience during the sixth week of the quarter attending one day each week for five weeks.

In the second quarter, MULT 114 continues the practice in an inpatient clinical setting. Students are required to obtain 60 unaided successful blood collections during this 60 hour clinical experience. Students begin this experience at the beginning of the quarter attending one day each week for eight weeks.  At this point, these clinical experiences are only available during the day shift.

The clinical facilities that are used for this clinical experience are located in Columbus and is surrounding counties. Assignment to the clinical experience facility is based upon order of registration.

The completion of the program is a requirement for eligibility to take the national certification exams administered by ASCP and NCA. However, passing the national certification exam it is not a requirement for the awarding of the certificate.

The Phlebotomy program at Columbus State is approved by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS) at 8410 West Bryn Mawr Ave, Chicago, IL 60631-3415, telephone (773)-714-8880.

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