Credit Hours:3 Lecture Hours:3 Lab Hours:1 Contact Hour Total:64 Skill development in the performance of a verity of blood collection methods using proper techniques and standard precautions. Includes vacuum collection devices, syringes, capillary skin puncture, butterfly needles and blood culture, and specimen collection on adults, children, and infants. Emphasis on infection prevention, patient identification, specimen labeling, quality assurance, specimen handling, processing, accessioning, professionalism, ethics, and medical terminology. Corequisite(s):PLAB 1360Notes: Technical Dual Credit course. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Workforce Education Course Manual (WECM) course