Dec 12, 2024  
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IBEST-OD 74 - Medical Assistant Phlebotomy Success for Open Doors

Credits: 2-5
An Open Doors basic skills course to support students’ skills development as needed to be successful in the Phlebotomy program. Students receive contextualized instruction needed to succeed in the program and find employment. Students utilize critical thinking strategies and study skills, increase vocabulary, use basic mathematical skills as needed for phlebotomy skills, effectively read course materials, comprehend skills demonstrations, participate in workplace discussions, and increase job search skills. This is a pass/no credit course.

Enrollment Requirement: Appropriate placement and instructor consent. Students must be admitted through Open Doors.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

  1. Refer to details and examples in phlebotomy text to explain what the text says.
  2. Determine the main idea of the phlebotomy text and explain how it is supported by key details.
  3. Follow precisely a multi-step procedure when performing phlebotomy related tasks.
  4. Interpret information presented visually or quantitatively (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table.)
  5. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a technical topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
  6. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to the task assigned.
  7. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
  8. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
  9. Gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work and provide a list of sources.
  10. Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  11. Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.

Program Outcomes
Demonstrate the skills necessary to earn a college credential and acquire employment in a high-demand, living wage job.

College-wide Outcomes
  • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.



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