Description
Travel to homes, facilities, workplaces, and community sites to collect blood and other specimens for testing, donation, or research. Explain procedures, ensure accurate labeling and transport, maintain specimen integrity, and provide on-site aftercare for adverse reactions while upholding safety, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
- • Travel to patient homes, workplaces, long-term care facilities, and community events to perform collections.
- • Verify patient identity and obtain consent before collection.
- • Explain collection procedures and aftercare to patients and caregivers.
- • Draw venous blood using vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods.
- • Perform capillary collections via finger or heel stick.
- • Perform arterial collections, if credentialed and ordered.
- • Collect timed specimens for therapeutic drug monitoring and other ordered tests.
- • Match orders and requisitions to properly labeled specimen containers; apply barcoded labels via mobile devices.
- • Document chain of custody and specimen route from collection through drop-off or courier handoff.
- • Maintain specimen integrity during transport using appropriate packaging, temperature control, and timing; centrifuge when required.
- • Process specimens for lab submission, including aliquoting and proper stabilization per protocol.
- • Enter patient, specimen, billing, and insurance data into mobile EHR or collection apps; obtain electronic signatures.
- • Dispose of biohazard fluids and tissue per regulations; manage regulated waste in field settings.
- • Dispose of contaminated sharps safely using portable containers; return or exchange containers per policy.
- • Organize, clean, and restock mobile phlebotomy kits; ensure sterile, single-use supplies.
- • Maintain and verify operation of portable devices such as centrifuges, label printers, coolers, and point-of-care testing equipment.
- • Perform point-of-care tests, including glucose, hemoglobin, and blood smears, as ordered; record results.
- • Administer subcutaneous or intramuscular injections when assigned and permitted by license and policy.
- • Screen donors or patients per protocol by reviewing history, vital signs, and suitability when supporting mobile blood drives.
- • Monitor patients or donors during and after collection; manage adverse reactions and escalate per emergency protocols.
- • Provide post-collection care instructions; serve refreshments at mobile blood drives.
- • Coordinate schedules, appointments, and routes; communicate ETAs with patients and dispatch.
- • Transport specimens to laboratories or designated drop sites; hand off to couriers, maintaining documentation.
- • Train new staff or partners on mobile collection procedures, safety, and documentation.
- • Comply with HIPAA, OSHA, and transport regulations; maintain vehicle cleanliness and safety.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
