Students Earn National Certification in Phlebotomy
December 21, 2010 No Comments
Clinical Certification
Nationally Certified credentials will enter you into a growing group of distinguished healthcare professionals. These healthcare professionals come from all types of healthcare industries such as: government agencies, healthcare related businesses, and educational communities from around the world.
National Healthcareer Association (NHA) is nationally approved and highly recognized as a certification organization in all 50 states and around the world.
A Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) draws blood from patients or donors in hospitals, blood banks, or similar facilities for analysis or other medical purposes. A CPT may perform some or all of the following duties. However, they are not limited to just these responsibilities:
- Assembles equipment and disposable containers for needles
- Tests for drug levels in the blood
- Looks for abnormal cells in the body and body fluids
- Performs complex chemical, biological, and microscopic tests
- May conduct patient interviews and take vital signs
- Performs basic Phlebotomy procedures
The National Healthcareer Association:
• Setting the standard in healthcare, national certification, continuing education, curriculum and professional
skills development.
• Ensuring a high level of performance among healthcare professionals by offering competency certification
testing, using “psychometric” principles of exam development and exceeding industry standards.
• Partnering with schools, hospitals and unions for custom program development and certification implementation.
• Establishing educational requirements and developing continuing education opportunities for healthcare
professionals for career advancement.
• Networking services and career assistance for certified NHA members.
The following organizations recognize the National Healthcareer Association
Approvals & Recognitions
- Alaska; Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies; University of Alaska Anchorage
- All U.S. Military Services through Department of Defense’s DANTES (Defense Activity Non-Traditional Education Support)
- California Department of Health Services, Laboratory Field Services, (Phlebotomy Certification)
- City University of New York, several CUNY Campuses
- Consortium for Worker Education, New York, NY
- Elsevier Science Publishing
- Florida Department of Education, Approved Vendor: National Certification
- Georga Department of Human Resources, Office of Regulatory Services
- Georga Laboratory Blood Bank and Tissue Advisory Board
- Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Publishing
- Louisiana Clinical Laboratory Personnel Committee
- Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners
- Massachusetts Career Vocational Technical Education (MAPCS)
- Massachusetts Department of Education, CTE Curriculum Frameworks
- Massachusetts Department of Education–Credentials for Healthcare Certification
- Michigan, DLEG Career Education Consumer Report
- Mosby Publishing
- National Organization of Competency Assurance, (NOCA) Washington, D.C. (Member Since 1999)
- New Jersey Department of Education
- New Jersey Department of Labor
- New York City Department of Education
- New York City Office of School Improvement and Restructuring
- New York League 1199 Hospital Workers Union
- New York State Department of Education, VESID
- NY Coalition of Proprietary Schools
- Ohio Department of Education–Healthcareer Certification
- Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education
- Pennsylvania Department of Education–Career Certification Program/Industry Credentials
- State University of New York, SUNY
- Thomson Delmar Publishing
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- U.S. Department of Labor National Office of Job Corps (NOJC)
- Virginia, VCCS Workforce Development Services
- W.B. Saunders Publishing
