Phlebotomy Handbook : Blood Specimen Collection from Basic to Advanced Tenth Edition

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Phlebotomy Handbook: Blood Specimen Collection from Basic to Advanced links students and health care professionals to the latest information on safe, effective blood collection. Progressing from simple concepts to complex competencies, the text covers all of the communication, clinical, technical, and safety skills that any health care worker will use in the practice of phlebotomy and other specimen-collection procedures. The 10th edition aligns the text with entry-level competencies of the NAACLS. A DVD video library demonstrating procedures described in this text is available in Pearson’s Instructor Resource Center.

About the Author Diana Garza

Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Doctorate of Education in Allied Health Education and Administration in Baylor College of Medicine at the University of Houston.

Teaching experience from University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Microbiology Laboratory in University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where she later became the Administrative Director of the Division of Laboratory Medicine. In 1990, Dr. Garza joined the faculty of Texas Woman’s University—Houston Center, where she taught Internet-based quality improvement courses and became editor of several journals and continuing education publications. Dr. Garza has served on numerous health care advisory boards, as a board member for many nonprofit health care organizations, and on nationwide committees in the field of laboratory medicine. She continues her writing and editorial pursuits primarily in the field of phlebotomy.