About this ebook
We built this the way a phlebotomy instructor runs a clinical rotation, not the way a shelf gets filled. NHA gives you 120 items in two hours. Only 100 count; the other 20 are pretest items nothing on screen marks out. NHA's current test plan rests on a job analysis it completed in 2024. It sets the weights: Routine Blood Collections 28, Safety and Compliance 26, Patient Preparation 20, Processing 14, Special Collections 12. Compliance sits almost level with the draw itself, and it is the part most people skim. Check them against NHA's published test plan. We would rather you did.
What's inside
The CLSI order of draw, drilled until it is reflex. Cultures, citrate, SST, heparin, EDTA, fluoride. It gets its own tear-out page, then comes back inside questions across all fourteen days.
Exam traps with the reason attached. A tourniquet over a minute means hemoconcentration. A short citrate tube means a bad ratio and a rejected specimen.
500 questions with rationales, across five kinds of practice. Three full-length exams of 100 questions against the two-hour clock. Then a midpoint exam, a final exam, and a 100-question domain mini-bank for whatever your results call weak.
One topic a day. Safety and compliance, infection control, patient preparation, routine blood collections, special collections, processing and quality assurance. Sixty to ninety minutes an evening.
Special collections taught as its own skill. Blood cultures, timed draws, pediatric and geriatric patients, capillary technique, and the draws that go wrong: rolling veins, hematoma, syncope, short fills. Maybe you have bought a study guide that turned out to be a glossary with a quiz at the back. Give this one three evenings. If the first practice exam tells you nothing about your readiness that you did not already know, put it down. An hour is all it cost.
Three readers get value from it. Someone finishing a phlebotomy program who wants a route through it. A medical assistant adding the CPT to what they already do. Someone back after a near miss. If you draw blood on a floor every day, start at Day 1 anyway. Twenty-six of the 100 scored items sit in safety and compliance, and the needle is not what it asks about.
The special collections day is the one people put off. Do it anyway, because blood cultures and heel sticks are on the paper. Downloaded once, yours to keep.
— The Passmark Publishing Editorial Team
An independent study guide from Passmark Publishing. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Healthcareer Association or CLSI. NHA and CPT are trademarks of the National Healthcareer Association. For exam preparation only; not medical advice.
