Blood Culture Collection Best Practices for Laboratory Professionals

Course overview

This CME/CMLE-accredited, case-based activity is designed to help phlebotomists and other clinical laboratory team members increase their knowledge, skills, and competence in applying best practices for adult blood culture collection in clinical laboratories. Through a series of ten 5-minute cases developed by a multidisciplinary team, you will gain a greater understanding of current guidelines to improve blood culture collection practices in order to maintain aseptic technique, reduce blood culture contamination rates, ensure patient safety, and contribute to timeliness of patient diagnosis and treatment. While these best practices represent the current gold standard for blood culture collection, they may need to be modified based on institutional guidelines in light of supply disruptions in blood culture media bottles or other consumables.