• Determines eligibility for donors to give whole blood or blood, completes donor questionnaires, recognizes and interpreting vital signs, and performs routine testing.
• Prepares donors for sterile vein puncture in keeping with standard protocol.
• Performs venipunctures and phlebotomies, observes donors for possible reactions, and reports observations to a physician or other professional medical personnel.
• Fractionates blood and prepares various blood components from whole blood and blood component donations.
• Studies techniques for blood component donations and studies procedures to prepare supplies and equipment used in various blood bank procedures.
  
• Receives instructions to rejuvenate red cells and freezes and thaws components by specialized techniques to preserve their volubility for patient transfusion.
• Issues blood components to hospital personnel.

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