Therapeutic & Diagnostic Services: Phlebotomy

The Phlebotomy Therapeutic & Diagnostic Services curriculum is designed to prepare students for careers in the Health Sciences.

Students will complete general education courses that provide a foundation for success in nursing and allied health curricula. Students may select a career pathway that will prepare them for an entry level position in health care. Courses may also provide foundational knowledge needed in the pursuit of advanced health science degrees or programs.

Graduates should qualify for an entry-level job associated with the Phlebotomy program major.

Phlebotomy Therapeutic & Diagnostic Services is a program that prepares individuals to obtain blood and other specimens for the purpose of laboratory analysis. Course work includes proper specimen collection and handling, communication skills, and maintaining patient data. Graduates may qualify for employment in hospitals, clinics, physicians’ offices, and other health care settings and may be eligible for national certification as phlebotomy technicians.

Admission to Program

Students are encouraged to begin the admissions process early so that there will be time for them to complete any required pre-admission coursework before the program start date.

SCC Requirements

• Completion and return of the SCC Application for Admission. Students applying for admission must have a current SCC application on file.
• Submission of a copy of high school diploma or GED/HSE certificate.
• Submission of official transcripts from any community college or university previously attended.
• Complete all Southeastern requirements to be admitted as a degree seeking student.
• Meet with the program advisor to discuss requirements, connected careers, and possible transfer opportunities. • Meeting with an SCC counselor

Program Requirements

Current program requirements are listed on the Student Readiness Checklist which is available on the SCC Nursing and Health Technologies webpage.

Continuation in Program

Submission of Required Documentation

Enrollment and continuation in the program is contingent upon the submission of the required documentation on or before the specified date communicated by the college. Admission requirements include, but are not limited to:

• Completed SCC Health Form (included in the acceptance letter)
• Recorded compliance with all immunization requirements (included on the SCC Health Form)
• Proof of malpractice insurance (after admission to the program)
• OSHA training (after admission to the program)
• Certification from student’s physician/healthcare provider that provides evidence that the student meets the conditions of physical health and/or physical capability at a level that is acceptable to and in keeping with safe care to the public (included on the SCC Health Form)
• Certification from student’s physician/healthcare provider that provides evidence that the student meets the conditions of emotional health at a level that is acceptable to and in keeping with safe care to the public (included on the SCC Health Form)

A copy of the SCC Nursing and Health Technologies Division Medical Records and Health Certification form with detailed admission requirements, along with a description of the essential functions of the program which students must be able to perform is available on the nursing and health technologies webpage.

Students accepted into the program with previous physical, emotional, or behavioral problems which conflict with the safety essential to the provision of care must provide professional certification that appropriate treatment and/or counseling has taken place adequately addressing and developing strategies for accommodating the problem.

The nursing faculty reserves the right to deny admission to a student who has demonstrated past behaviors which conflict with safety essential to nursing practice.

Course Work

Students in the program are advised to take courses in the sequence of the curriculum master plan. In addition, all courses in the curriculum master plan must be completed satisfactorily, and a grade of C or better is required in all science and health technology courses used in the program. Basic Anatomy and Physiology must have been completed not more than ten years before starting classes in the nursing program, or the course(s) must be retaken.

Relationship with Clinical Agency

From a safety perspective, the users of alcohol and drugs may impair the well-being of themselves and the persons they serve in the clinical setting. In addition, the contract between SCC and a clinical agency requires that the college abide by the existing rules and regulations of the agency. Clinical agencies may require acceptable criminal background checks and drug screens prior to allowing students in the clinical area. The college follows agency protocol regarding drug screening and criminal background checks, and agrees not to assign, or to withdraw any students from the clinical agency who does not meet the agency’s standard for employment. Students who are unacceptable to the agency, at any time, because of health, performance, a positive criminal background check, or other reasonable causes may be refused admission to the clinical site. Without access to the clinical facilities, students will be unable to satisfactorily complete the practical nursing courses.

Students may be required, at their own expense, to be tested for consumption of alcohol/drugs for cause at any time while in this program. Clinical sites control and can refuse to allow individuals to work in their facility.

Dismissal of Students

Health Technology faculty follow published college and health technology department guidelines and practices that provide for identification and dismissal of students who do the following:

• demonstrate physical or emotional problems which conflict with the safety essential to healthcare practice and do not respond to appropriate treatment and/or counseling within a reasonable period of time.
• demonstrate a pattern of unethical or unsafe clinical practices or behavior which conflicts with safety essential to practice and care for patients.

Students who demonstrate behavior that conflicts with safety essential to the program can be dismissed from the program regardless of whether treatment or counseling has occurred.

Admission – Readmission

Guidelines All students applying for admission or readmission must meet current admission requirements. Students enrolled in the program who are passing theory and are demonstrating safe practice in the clinical and lab area, but experience a crisis or an illness of self or immediate family that results in their having to withdraw from the program may write a letter to the director of nursing explaining their situation and petition for re-entry to the next available course as long as readmission occurs the next time the course is offered within the academic year that begins immediately following the semester in which the student left the nursing program.

Criteria

Criteria for readmission selection are based on best-qualified status. Best qualified is determined by grades in specified college courses and selected previous health professional training.

Readmission of students who were dismissed from the program for physical, emotional, or behavioral problems which conflicted with the safety essential to the provision of care is contingent on professional documentation that appropriate treatment and/or counseling has taken place and that the problem has been adequately accommodated.

When a student is allowed to repeat a health technologies course for which they had previously earned a grade of C or better, the grade earned for the repeated health technologies course will be the only grade used in program progression consideration or program grade point average computations. The most recent grade earned is most reflective of the student’s current knowledge and its application to safe healthcare practice.