Clinical hours
Phlebotomy clinical experience
Phlebotomy clinical hours are the supervised draws and the time in a real collection setting. They are the part of training an employer can picture.
Ask three numbers: how many hours in the classroom, how many hours in the clinical site, and how many successful venipunctures and skin punctures you must record. A program that will not state them is asking you to buy a vague product.
California’s approved schools operate under state rules for that practical training. Other states leave the number to the school and to the exam body you choose later. Write the number into your notes next to the tuition.
Clinical hours on nights or at a distant hospital change whether you can finish. The address on the school card is not always the address of the clinical site. Ask for the site, or for how a site is assigned.
States and territories
- Alabama 11
- Alaska 3
- Arizona 32
- Arkansas 31
- California 305
- Colorado 22
- Connecticut 22
- Delaware 8
- Florida 172
- Georgia 54
- Guam 1
- Hawaii 1
- Idaho 7
- Illinois 64
- Indiana 64
- Iowa 12
- Kansas 13
- Kentucky 21
- Louisiana 58
- Maine 14
- Maryland 13
- Massachusetts 22
- Michigan 63
- Minnesota 20
- Mississippi 15
- Missouri 30
- Montana 8
- Nebraska 4
- Nevada 17
- New Hampshire 10
- New Jersey 18
- New Mexico 16
- New York 82
- North Carolina 62
- North Dakota 2
- Ohio 133
- Oklahoma 10
- Oregon 14
- Pennsylvania 36
- Rhode Island 4
- South Carolina 16
- South Dakota 3
- Tennessee 33
- Texas 170
- U.S. Virgin Islands 3
- Utah 15
- Vermont 1
- Virginia 40
- Washington 34
- West Virginia 14
- Wisconsin 20
- Wyoming 4
Questions
Are clinical hours the same as office hours on the card?
No. Office hours are when the institution said it was open. Clinical hours are the practice requirement inside the program.
What if I already have draws from a job?
Ask the school whether prior draws count. Do not assume they transfer.