li>Patients are prepared for phlebotomy, culture, and urine collection procedures according to routine and special phlebotomy protocol to include: routine venipuncture, capillary collection, heel sticks, blood bank collection, legal blood alcohol, therapeutic drugs, patient's with IV's, mastectomy patients, and any other miscellaneous phlebotomy procedures.
Patient samples are collected and labeled correctly and within acceptable response time (STAT response 5 minutes or less, timed specimens + 15 minutes, routine at designated intervals, outpatients < 15 minutes.) according to policies and procedures.