Course summary
The median cubital vein, located in the cubital fossa at the front of the elbow, is the most common site for blood collection. It is close to the skin’s surface and has minimal nerve supply, making it an ideal location for safe venipuncture.
The Perform Blood Collection Course (HLTPAT002) is evidence-based and focuses on teaching best practices for both patient care and clinician safety. This course equips students with the essential knowledge and skills to confirm collection requirements, prepare the client and equipment, and perform routine blood collections in a clinical setting.
Your assessment journey includes theoretical content, diverse assessment questions—ranging from multiple choice to interactive questions and answers—and a practical workplace activity involving the completion of blood collection procedures. There is a mandatory requirement to complete a minimum of 15 different successful blood draws in your workplace or at a facility with which you have a mentoring arrangement.
Key information
Suitable professions
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker
Enrolled Nurse
General Practitioner
Registered Nurse
Units of competency
HLTPAT002
Endorsed by
Available workshop locations
The Perform Venous Blood Collection course requires you to complete a half day face-to-face workshop. Below are the current available workshop dates, the ‘Enrol' button will take you to accessIQ, our online learning and assessment platform. Simply log in using your existing details or create a new account, and then follow the prompts to purchase and enrol.
Please note, enrolments close 7 days before the workshop date, we may not be able to accommodate late enrolments after this point. Please call us for more information. Don’t miss out - Enrol now to secure your spot!
Course details
This course is open to any individual for whom blood collection is part of the job role, including individuals working in collection centres, hospitals, clinical researchers or other health care environments and is within their scope of practice.
This course is designed to support health workers who perform venous blood collection as part of their role. It focuses on building the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to assess veins, collect blood samples safely, manage complications, and ensure accurate results for patient care.
- The Circulatory System
- Veins and Valves
- Vessels of the Arms and Hand
- Assessing Veins
- Practical Activity: Vein Assessment
- Equipment for Blood Collection
- Collection Tubes
- Collecting Blood Samples
- Complications
- Practical Activity: Blood Collection
On completion of this course the student will be able to complete venous blood collections in the workplace utilising the skills learnt and assessed below:
- Choose appropriate equipment for blood collection
- Discuss the factors that influence the correct selection of blood collection equipment
- Discuss and manage possible complications
- Identify and obtain clinical and relevant personal data for blood collection
- Perform blood collections
- Perform post-blood collection procedures including client care, documentation and follow up.
- Online theory and assessment delivered via accessIQ
- Half day face-to-face workshop (approx. 3 hours)
- In-class activities assessed by a qualified assessor
- Mandatory third party observed workplace activity
As part of your studies in this unit of competency, you are required to:
- Perform the activities outlined in the performance criteria of this unit during a period of at least 35 hours of pathology collection work under the supervision of a person currently working in a phlebotomist role for at least 18 hours per fortnight.
- Follow established technical, infection control and safety procedures and collected blood suitable for testing using venous blood collection with a maximum of two attempts from at least 15 different people comprising adults of varied ages.
- Use the following methods of collection:
- evacuated system (at least 10 times)
- winged infusion sets and/or needle and syringe as per organisation policy and procedure.
This means you will complete 15 different successful blood draw in your workplace or at a facility you have a mentoring arrangement with.
Workplace-observed practice is mandatory.
All workplace activities must be completed in accordance with work health and safety standards and all other relevant workplace policies and procedures.
For more information on the workplace activities please click here
Develop the technique to safely collect blood from patients and learn the importance of correctly collecting patient data relevant for clinical documentation. Understand blood collection and how to choose the appropriate equipment with practical demonstration, and discussions around managing possible complications.
Students enrolled in The Benchmarque Group courses should adhere to the following principles:
- Display a commitment to learning and to achieving success
- Be responsible and accountable for their own learning, behaviour and decisions
- Actively participate in all workshop activities and learning experiences
- Attend all scheduled sessions and be punctual at all times
- Complete all online assessments and workplace practice activities
- Work in harmony and respect the rights and opinions of staff and other students
- Treat others as they themselves would like to be treated
- Use acceptable language at all times.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
No, students are ideally already working in a practice where blood collection is performed and will need to organise third party observation at their workplace. If you are unable to organise this please reach out to our Student Support team - [email protected]
This course is open to any individual for whom blood collection is part of the job role, including individuals working in collection centres, hospitals, or other health care environments.
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