phlebotomist
ISCO: 5329. Skills: 37. Essential: 25.
Essential skills
- blood donation
- collect biological samples from patients
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- infection control
- interact with healthcare users
- label blood samples
- label medical laboratory samples
- maintain professional records
- manage infection control in the facility
- medical informatics
- monitor basic patients signs
- perform venepuncture procedures
- respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions
- sterilization techniques
- techniques of blood-sampling
- transport blood samples
- use technical equipment for sterilisation
- use venepuncture procedure equipment
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Supporting skills
- assist patients with special needs
- blood collection on babies
- blood product storage conditions
- blood transfusion
- blood type classification
- conduct cancer screening tests
- conduct routine blood testing
- explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients
- medical terminology
- paediatric phlebotomy procedures
- perform reconstructive microsurgery
- use foreign languages in patient care