Nationally Certified Online Phlebotomy Course
Everyone needs that edge that will set them apart from the rest. Employers would be more inclined to hire a licensed practical nurse or medical assistant who possessed a certification as a phlebotomy technician. Already in the health-care field? Have you done at least twenty five venipunctures? Have you always wanted to become certified as a phlebotomy technician? Then Phlebotomy Career Training, a Michigan licensed proprietary school can help with the new Nationally Certified Online Phlebotomy Course.
(PRWEB) October 7, 2010
Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, interns, physicians, medical technologists, medical assistants, ECG Technicians, Respiratory Therapists and more have had to perform blood draws at one time or another. However, they are not considered phlebotomy technicians. Earning a phlebotomy technician certification requires attending classes at local colleges or proprietary schools. The costs are very steep. The average phlebotomy technician program costs anywhere from one thousand to eleven thousand dollars.
Medical health-care professionals realize that they can do the job of a phlebotomy technician but lack only the certification. The thought of spending thousands of dollars on a course which they already have experience in seems like a waste of time and money. This is the dilemma that medical health-care professionals face daily when competing with phlebotomy technicians for phlebotomy related positions.
Employers of health-care workers will hire a phlebotomy technician before a hiring a Licensed Practical Nurse or medical assistant because the phlebotomy technician has a certificate. Although the Licensed Practical Nurse and medical assistant can both do the job of the phlebotomy technician, they lack the certification. In Michigan, there is now a nursing hiring freeze. There are too many graduate nurses who do not possess the experience to find work. They too have no specialization that will allow them to compete with phlebotomy technicians.
Everyone needs that edge that will set them apart from the rest. Employers would be more inclined to hire a licensed practical nurse or medical assistant who possessed a certification as a phlebotomy technician. The employer recognizes that the medical assistant and licensed practical nurse can multitask while being proficient in phlebotomy. Medical assistants are always drawing blood. Phlebotomy is part of their curriculum. However, medical assistants are not considered phlebotomy technicians. Employers are very specific as to the professional certification that is required for the job.
Now more than ever, employers such as hospitals, doctors offices, out-patient labs and nursing homes require medical health-care workers to perform blood draws. They are going so far as to hire phlebotomy technicians to train their employees. This wouldn't be the case if their employees were already certified as a phlebotomy technician.
Professor Nancy Kimmel, Registered Nurse, PhD and Certified Phlebotomy Instructor at Phlebotomy Career Training School, realized the importance of offering affordable online accelerated phlebotomy certification to those with previous experience in phlebotomy.
Professor Kimmel has been teaching for over twenty years. She has taught at Lawrence Technological University in the Mechanical Engineering Department, at Henry Ford Community College in the math, physics and engineer department and at Oakland University in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Professor Kimmel has spent years working at Oakwood Hospital as a Registered Nurse in CCU, Medical Surgical Floors and in the Intermediate Intensive Care Unit. She has also worked in home care. Professor Kimmel has been an ardent educator in the Metro Detroit area since 2002 and now instructs students at her own school, Phlebotomy Career Training http://www. PhlebotomyCareerTraining. com in Garden City, Michigan. Her accomplishments are many. She has been awarded a U. S. Patent and has authored several books on nursing. One of her books entitled, Pass The N. E.T., is on its sixth printing and can be found at the college bookstores of Wayne County Community College and at Henry Ford Community College. She states, "I believe in helping people. That is what I do as a nurse and as a teacher. The greatest gift to give someone is knowledge and that is what I try to do daily with my students." Professor Kimmel has spent hours writing online tutorials to help her students in class. Now she is able to offer a complete online course dedicated to those with previous experience in phlebotomy. She states; "I have come a long way to achieve my goals. Working as a professor at colleges and universities, I would see so many students give up due to the high tuition costs. I always wanted to help others achieve their dreams. Being able to offer an affordable online class is the best way to begin."
Phlebotomy Career Training is a licensed proprietary school in the state of Michigan. Phlebotomy Career Training has won approval of its curriculum from Michigan Works and the Michigan J. E.T. Program for Welfare and Human Services. Professor Kimmel is the administrator and instructor of all the courses at the school. Professor Kimmel offers the traditional classroom instruction in phlebotomy. The on site courses are six weeks in duration and include forty hours of lecture an fifty hours of lab.
The online Phlebotomy Technician Course is $150. It is a one week class. Students are given a log-in code and access to all tests, reading, and video tutorials by professor Kimmel. Once students complete the class they are required to take a final exam. Upon passing the final, Professor Kimmel will then send to them their Michigan Certificate for Phlebotomy Technician.
Professor Kimmel's school is also certified by the National Healthcareer Association. Therefore, once student's pass their final exam they can also sit for their National Phlebotomy Certification exam. The National Healthcareer Association is the benchmark for accreditation of phlebotomy certification. Students not present in the state of Michigan will still be able to take the online course and receive not only certification from the state of Michigan but nationwide.
Professor Kimmel states: "This is a most wonderful opportunity that I can offer to medical health-care professionals. Students all over the United States are eligible to take the online phlebotomy course and earn national certification. We also have national approval for our ECG course. I am so excited to hear from the new students who will enroll and will help them all that I can."
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