RCMAS Suggested Curriculum

Total Amount of Hours: 1,446 hours

Phlebotomy (620 hrs.), EKG (400 hrs.) and Medical Procedures (426 hrs.)

Clinical Externship: 334 hours:

• Phlebotomy-160 hours
• EKG- 64 hours
• Medical Procedures- 90 hours

Total hours: 426 hours

336 hours of basic science and lab practice
90 hours as an intern/externship in either/or

• physician’s office
• hospital unit
• BLS
• Electrical Therapy (AED)
• First Aid
• Intro to PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support)
• Intro to ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)
• Virology/Injection & Vaccine
• Urine Analysis
• Vital Signs
• Acuity Test
• IV intravenous
• Wound Care
• Pulmonary Functioning Test
• Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
• Oxygen Therapy
• Asthma Therapy
• Patient Records

Total hours: 620 hours

448 hours of basic science and lab practice
160 hours as an intern/externship in either/or

• clinical laboratory setting
• physician’s office lab
• hospital lab setting

Phlebotomy Adult/Pediatric (Basic Sciences)

• Anatomy
• Medical Terminology
• Infection Control
• Physiology
• Pathology
• Ethics and Law
• Microbiology
• Biology
• Genetics
• Physics
• Communication Skills
• Phlebotomy Pediatric
• CLSI Standards
• Chemistry
• Pharmacology
• BLS
• AED

Phlebotomy Adult /Pediatric  Fundamental Skills

1. Pre Analytical Errors
2. Tourniquet
3. Hemoconcentration
4. Hematoma
5. Hemolysis
6. Vascular Access Device
7. Coagulation Studies
8. Patient Identification
9. Centrifugation
10. Blood Culture
11. Hematology and Routine Chemistry Blood Test
12. Glycolysis
13. TDM (Therapeutic Drug Monitor)
14. Needle Stick Prevention (Biosafety)
15. Phlebotomy Pediatric
16. Capillary Puncture
17. Vein Selection
18. Most Common Blood Tubes:
    
    • Lavender top tube
    • Yellow top tube/bottles
    • Light Blue top tube
    • Gray top tube
    • Gold top tube/red and gray/
    • speckle/tiger/marble/gel/sst
    • Green top tube
    • Plain red top tube
19. Special pre-analytical protocols:
    
    • Test affected by pumping the fist
    • Tube inversion
    • Specimen tube material & coagulation time
    • Separation of liquid part of blood from solid part.
    • Lipemia and test affected
    • Tube orientation and closure
    • Special Analytes handling
    • Analyte Stability
    • Rejection of blood Samples

Total hours: 400 hours

336 hours of basic science and lab practice
64 hours as an intern/externship in either/or

• a cardiac lab setting
• physician’s office
• hospital cardiac unit

Clinical ECG/ EKG Errors and Prevention

1. Cardiac Anatomy
2. Cardiac Physiology
3. Cardiac Electrophysiology
4. EKG Instrumentation/Telemetry
5. ECG leads placement
6. Review of the ECG wave form and intervals
7. Basic ECG 12 lead Arrhythmia descriptive analysis and clinical impression
8. The use of the caliper and scale method for heart rate calculation
9. Clinical ECG/Cardiac Monitor basic protocol calculation

Clinical ECG/EKG Errors and Prevention

• Myocardial ischemia, injury, and infarct
• Identification of cardiac markers associated to ACS (Acute Coronary Syndromes)
• Dextrocardiogram and “RVI”
• Non-resting ECG (stress testing)