Medical Technology Certificates

To qualify for this program, you need to have earned your high school diploma or have an equivalent like a GED or HiSet. You should also possess a 10th grade English reading level.

Your tuition includes an e-book, course support, and the NWCA (CPT) exam.

Yes. You may reach out to Learner Support to ask course content questions. Please visit the Learner Support center to look through Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that address the most common Learner issues. Here, you can also submit a Support Ticket that will be assigned to a Learner Support team member and we'll get in touch right away to help. If you need help immediately, please contact us at 877-261-1484 or info@edu2.com

The online portion of the course is approximately 90 hours and most students will complete their certification in 8-16 weeks. If you want to finish the online portion of your studies in 8 weeks, be prepared to spend a minimum of 11.25 hours per week persisting in the course. If you want to complete it in 16 weeks, then you are looking at spending about six hours per week studying. The more hours you spend studying in the course per week, the sooner you will finish. This does not account for in-person lab times and externship.

While neither the in-person lab nor the clinical externship is required, they are both beneficial. We highly encourage taking advantage of both. Or, you may choose to do one of the two.

This program includes a 40 hour clinical externship opportunity. To be eligible for the clinical, students must successfully complete the 90 hour program, submit to a thorough background check, drug screening, and meet other requirements.

• Identify patients correctly
• Verify orders
• Talk with patients and donors so they are less nervous about having their blood drawn
• Assess the patient prior to collection to ensure there are no contraindications to performing the procedures
• Prepare the patient appropriately for each procedure and inform the patient of the procedure
• Perform the procedure properly using the correct equipment and supplies
• Label specimen containers properly
• Assess the patient after the procedure
• Perform quality control functions
• Enter patient information into a database
• Transport specimens correctly and in a timely manner
• Prepare/process the samples for testing/analysis
• Assist in laboratory testing procedures
• Assemble and maintain medical instruments used in procedures
• Wash glassware and clean equipment and facilities
• Print/collate/distribute laboratory requisitions and reports
• Answer phones
• Practice customer service

A credential from National Workforce Career Association (NWCA) demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of an entire content area, industry or area of expertise. An NWCA credential indicates to prospective or current employers that an earner has passed an extensive, rigorous exam which thoroughly tests the competency and skills of the earner. This Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) credential is designed to document the knowledge base for phlebotomists who work in a variety of settings, including those who are a part of the laboratory team, paramedics, and point-of-care healthcare workers.

This credential is appropriate the healthcare workers who assist in patient care by taking blood, urine, and other body fluid samples so that they can be analyzed by a medical lab to assist the physician or other provider in clinical decision making for diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of health parameters. Phlebotomists work in hospital labs and those of other residential facilities (long-term care facilities, specialty hospitals, urgent care facilities, psychiatric facilities) in ambulatory and outpatient settings (physician offices, clinics, home health care agencies, hospice agencies, prison health clinics, school-based clinics, dialysis centers, screening centers, durable medical equipment suppliers, HMOs, community health centers, specialty practices, rehabilitation settings, sports medicine settings, drug testing centers), and in mobile settings (mobile vans for blood donations, mammography, workplace testing, forensic toxicology labs, etc.)

You will need to contact Learner Support.

Please visit the Learner Support center to look through Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that address the most common Learner issues. Here, you can also submit a Support Ticket that will be assigned to a Learner Support team member and we'll get in touch right away to help. If you need help immediately, please contact us at 877-261-1484 or info@edu2.com

Areas of assessment include the phlebotomist’s role and profession, infection control and safety, quality assurance, anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, phlebotomy equipment and procedures, point-of-care testing, and special populations and procedures. This credential documents development of skills for healthcare professionals who collect blood, urine, fecal specimens, seminal fluid, sputum, and other body specimens. They collect, label, package, transport, use lab equipment to test, enter data into computers, report on, and store body fluid specimen. Phlebotomists are employed in general medical and surgical hospitals, specialty hospitals, medical and diagnostic laboratories, ambulatory health care services, physicians offices, insurance carriers, state government offices, home health care services, blood donation facilities, and other facilities.

Exam Structure Overview

Number of Questions in Exam: 60
Total Time: 60 minutes
Overall Passing Score: 70%
(All sections require an individual passing score of 70%)

You are eligible to sit for the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) Exam if you have a certain amount of sticks. You should be able to get the sticks during the hands-on labs and/or externship. If you miss the labs, then the only opportunity to get the sticks in will be on the externship or at your job. You are on your own to register and pay for this exam. It is completely up to take this exam as a second national exam would just look better on your resume, but not required.

To qualify for this program, you need to have earned your high school diploma or have an equivalent like a GED or HiSet. You should also possess a 10th grade English reading level.

Your tuition includes an e-book, course support, and the NWCA (CET) exam.

Yes. You may reach out to Learner Support to ask course content questions. Please visit the Learner Support center to look through Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that address the most common Learner issues. Here, you can also submit a Support Ticket that will be assigned to a Learner Support team member and we'll get in touch right away to help. If you need help immediately, please contact us at 877-261-1484 or info@edu2.com.

The online portion of the course is 50 hours and most students will complete their certification in 8-16 weeks. If you want to finish the online portion of your studies in 8 weeks, be prepared to spend a minimum of 6.25 hours per week persisting in the course. If you want to complete it in 16 weeks, then you you will spend about three hours per week studying. The more hours you spend studying in the course per week, the sooner you will finish. This does not account for in-person lab times.

While the in-person lab is not required, it is highly beneficial. We highly encourage taking advantage of the in-person labs.

• Communicate with others in the healthcare setting using appropriate terminology related to the cardiovascular system
• Correctly and efficiently use the EKG machine and related supplies and equipment
• Accurately identify the difference between a normal sinus rhythm and abnormal rhythms
• Correctly measure the heart rate using the EKG machine
• Properly prepare a patient for an EKG test using a 12-lead EKG
• Practice all safety procedures related to an EKG test
• Interpret basic EKG rhythm strips using a basic interpretation approach
• Identify common EKG arrhythmias
• Assist the provider in diagnostic EKG tests, ambulatory tests, and rehabilitative modalities related to the EKG .

A credential from National Workforce Career Association (NWCA) demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of an entire content area, industry or area of expertise. An NWCA credential indicates to prospective or current employers that an earner has passed an extensive, rigorous exam which thoroughly tests the competency and skills of the earner. The purpose of the NWCA (CET) credential is to document the proficiency of selected healthcare workers, such as EKG technicians, medical assistants, and nurses in the knowledge, skills, and techniques involved in EKG technology under the supervision of appropriate physicians and other professionals. This credential is designed for individuals who have completed appropriate EKG training from appropriate organizations and who have mastered the many knowledge and skill sets involved with successful performing of the EKG technician job. It is also designed for those who work in the healthcare field, who desire to enhance skill sets to include EKG technology, and who have completed appropriate training.

You will need to contact Learner Support. Please visit the Learner Support center to look through Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that address the most common Learner issues. Here, you can also submit a Support Ticket that will be assigned to a Learner Support team member and we'll get in touch right away to help. If you need help immediately, please contact us at 877-261-1484 or info@edu2.com.

EKG Technicians and other qualified health workers operate machines that record the electrical activity of a patient’s heart, which provide data for the diagnosis of heart conditions. Tasks include setting up and administering EKGs and stress tests, preparing patients for Holter monitoring, editing and delivering final test results to the physician, scheduling appointments, and transcribing physicians’ interpretations. Successful EKG Technicians understand basic human anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology as related to the cardiovascular system as well as know how to set up an EKG machine and Holter monitor, prepare the patient for a variety of EKG tests, run the test under the physician’s supervision, recognize normal EKG tracings compared to abnormal tracings, identify abnormal tracings, and make appropriate reports to the physicians.

Exam Structure Overview

Number of Questions in Exam: 60
Total Time: 60 minutes
Overall Passing Score: 70%
(All sections require an individual passing score of 70%)