Phlebotomy Training

• Tube Selection & Test Requirements: Identifying the correct tubes for the requested blood tests to ensure accurate sample collection.
• Blood Collection Techniques: Mastering the proper procedure for obtaining blood, including venipuncture and capillary methods.
• Equipment Handling: Properly preparing and using necessary phlebotomy tools, such as tubes, holders, needles, syringes, and tourniquets.
• Vein Selection & Sample Collection: Identifying and selecting the appropriate vein for venipuncture to ensure a successful blood draw.
• Specimen Handling: Mixing and labeling blood collection tubes accurately to prevent contamination or errors in results.
• Blood Cultures: Performing blood cultures and ensuring that samples are processed correctly.
• Sample Distribution: Understanding how to distribute blood samples to the appropriate lab areas for testing.
• Patient Care & Respect: Providing respectful care to patients throughout the phlebotomy process, ensuring their comfort and understanding.
• Office & Equipment Maintenance: Maintaining, cleaning, and sanitizing the medical office, laboratory, and all equipment to meet safety and hygiene standards.

At TN Professional Training Institute, our mission is not just to teach skills—it’s to empower you with the tools and confidence to step into your dream career as a Phlebotomist. Our dedicated team is here to support you every step of the way, offering personalized guidance in resume building, professional etiquette, and interview preparation.

While we can’t guarantee job placement, we go above and beyond to equip you with everything you need to succeed. From honing your professional skills to providing access to exclusive job opportunities through our private graduates-only Facebook group, we ensure you’re connected to the resources that matter.

Our goal is simple: to prepare you to enter the workforce and thrive. With the right mindset, skills, and support, your new career is well within reach. Let TNPTI be the launchpad for your success!

Students wishing to enroll in the TN Professional Training Institute’s 40 Hours Phlebotomy Program must be:

• 18 years of age or older, as required by the Tennessee State Board of Dentistry.
• In good standing with no felony convictions (misdemeanors are not immediate disqualifiers. The TN Board of Dentistry considers misdemeanors upon a case-by-case basis and TNPTI cannot guarantee board approval in the matter of state licensure.)
• Willing and able to work with patients while giving the best patient care possible
• Be a high school or GED graduate. Official transcripts/GED test scores are required.

• Students must be at least 18 years of age.
• Students must be at least a high school, GED/HISET graduate and submit official transcripts indicating the date of graduation from high school or GED pass date and scores from their school.
• Students must maintain an 80% average to qualify for graduation. Failure to meet this requirement may result in the need to repeat certain sections or the entire course.
• Students must purchase black scrubs prior to starting the course and are required to wear them for each session over the course of the 40 hours.
• Students are encouraged to purchase the textbook Phlebotomy: A Competency Based Approach 5th Edition by Kathryn Booth and Lillian Mundt.
• Students must have a clear criminal record. Please see the director if you have any questions regarding this status.
• Students must complete 40 hours of classroom instruction.

The TN Professional Training Institute's Phlebotomy Training Program is an intensive 40-hour course designed to equip students with the skills needed for a successful career in phlebotomy. Attendance is crucial, as excessive absences may result in dismissal from the program, with the option to move to the next session at the instructor’s discretion. Arriving late or leaving early may also be counted as an absence. Students have the flexibility to make up missed hours in the next scheduled term, provided they coordinate in advance with the administration.

Phlebotomy progress and grades are carefully tracked to ensure students meet the program’s standards and are fully prepared for success.

The instructor will keep a daily log of students’ grades and will communicate with students their updated grades on a daily basis.

Grading System :

Code Defined: It is presumed that any student who enrolls at TN Professional Training Institute is willing to conform to a pattern of mutual trust and honor and shall deal honorably with all members of the TNPTI community. It must be understood that it is the responsibility of each student, faculty, and staff member to preserve, nurture and strengthen this spirit of honor. TNPTI students shall at all times refrain from and discourage all attempts at falsifying information (lying); making untrue statements and disparaging remarks; cheating, stealing; plagiarism and vandalism. When a violation of the Honor Code is detected, the student(s) involved will be brought to the attention of the instructor and the Institutional Director or the Executive Director, who will come to a mutual agreement upon the disciplinary action appropriate for the action against the TNPTI code of honor.

Violations Defined:

• "Lying" is defined as any attempt to deceive, falsify, or misrepresent the truth in any matter involving program business. Program business includes, but is not limited to, financial aid information, excuses for absences and statements to instructors and TNPRI Administration in order to reschedule tests or assignments and responses to the queries of TNPTI staff.
• "Cheating" is defined as the employment of or rendering of any illicit aid in any assigned work.
• "Stealing" is defined as the appropriation of money or property belonging to another person, organization or the school. This also includes the borrowing of property without the knowledge of the owner.
• "Plagiarism" is defined as presenting as one's own work the words or ideas of an author or fellow student. Students should document quotes through quotation marks and footnotes or other accepted citation methods. Ignorance of these rules concerning plagiarism is not an excuse. When in doubt, students should seek clarification from the instructor who assigned the task.
• "Vandalism" is defined as intentional, malicious damage to university property or property belonging to others.

• All students must wear black scrubs during classroom hours.
• All students must wear closed toe and closed heel shoes during classroom hours.
• The students must wear their hair up if hair length is longer than shoulder length.
• Acrylic nails are not permitted during classroom hours. Natural nails can be painted in French tip or in a clear color. Colored nail polish other than clear is not permitted.
• Lab coats provided by the school should be worn during clinical/lab hours.
• PPEs should be worn at all times during clinical hours.