From submitting your application to admission to registration, Northwood Tech is available to help guide you through the admissions process. To help you successfully complete this program, Northwood Tech has developed a set of program requirements and technical standards. For students with a disability, reasonable accommodations are available to help you be successful in the program of your choice.
Admission Requirements
The first step to get admitted is to fill out a Northwood Tech application (no application fee required), and Northwood Tech will guide you from there. If you're not quite ready to become a student, visit a campus to get the full Northwood Tech experience. A campus tour will give you the opportunity to meet staff, instructors and students, tour the campus and get a real feel for the campus culture.
- Complete Online application/registration process and submit registration fee
- Have earned a high school diploma or GED certificate; current high school seniors must provide both a current high school transcript and a final (official) transcript with confer date
- Review and sign the Background Check Disclosure
- Review and sign Functional Abilities Disclosure
2024-25 Phlebotomy Program Additional Information
Program-Specific Requirements
- Submit Background Check Fee
- Have acceptable results based on the Wisconsin Caregiver Background Check, National Criminal Background Check, Minnesota Caregiver Background Check (if applicable), and other states, if applicable
- Pass a physical exam, have current immunizations, and demonstrate negative status for Tuberculosis (Tb)
- COVID vaccination---highly recommended
- NOTE: Northwood Technical College cannot guarantee clinical placement or ability to progress in the program if a student is not able to meet the clinical site requirements including but not limited to; influenza vaccine, covid vaccine, negative tb skin test or QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube test (QFT-GIT) or T-SPOT®.TB test (T-Spot), up to date acceptable background check, or any other clinical requirements required by the clinical site. Northwood Technical College cannot guarantee clinical placement if the clinical site must be changed due to students inability to meet the site specific requirements. Many sites require the student information 4-6 weeks prior to the clinical start date.
- Review and sign Health Sciences Confidentiality Statement
- Possess current certification of "BLS Basic Life Support"
- Participate in a mandatory program orientation scheduled prior to start of classes
2024-25 Phlebotomy Student Handbook
- Health Sciences Policies
- HS-i Work-based Learning Terms
- HS-ii Code of Conduct
- HS-01 Northwood Tech Mission, Vision, Values, & Tenets
- HS-02 Rules and Regulations-Student Signature
- HS-03 Safety Accountability Statement-Student Signature
- HS-04 Bloodborne Pathogen Risk Statement
- HS-05 CDC Guidelines and Links
- HS-06 Standard Precautions Chart
- HS-07 Exposure Control Procedures (Needle stick)
- HS-08 Performance-Based Instruction
- HS-09 Student Responsibilities
- HS-10 Responsibility of the Learner
- HS-11 Test-Taking
- HS-12 Studying Hints
- HS-13 Important Dispositions for Critical Thinkers
- HS-14 Good Thinking vs. Poor Thinking
- HS-15 Computer Information
- HS-16 Communication Guidelines
- HS-17 Confidentiality-HIPAA
- HS-18 Transfer Credit
- HS-19 Witnessing Legal Documents
- HS-20 Health Status
- HS-21 Health Form
- HS-22 BLS-Medic 1st Aid Requirements
- HS-23 Course Expectations for Assignments
- HS-24 Professional Expectations and Dress Code
- HS-25 Grading Policy
- HS-26 Improvement Plan
- HS-27 Academic Appeals Procedures
- HS-28 Automatic Program Dismissal
- HS-29 Complaints Concerning Health Sciences Programs
- Phlebotomy Program Policies
- PHLEB-01 2024-25 Catalog Page and Course Descriptions
- PHLEB-02 2024-25 Required Courses
- PHLEB-03 Program Goal, Purpose, and Outcomes
- PHLEB-04 Background Checks
- PHLEB-05 Absences
- PHLEB-06 Financial Reimbursement
- PHLEB-07 Late Assignments
- PHLEB-08 Cancellation of Class
- PHLEB-09 Course Failure-Repeat
- PHLEB-10 Withdrawal, Dismissal, and Reentry
- Phlebotomy Lab/Clinical Handbook
Phlebotomy Orientation - Spring 2025
Agenda
2024-25 Academic Calendar
- Required Courses
- Required Courses are to be used as a guide. Although your academic advisor can provide guidance, you are ultimately responsible for selecting courses that meet a program's graduation requirements. 2024-25 Phlebotomy Required Courses
- Background Checks
- The clinical agencies that host the Northwood Tech Phlebotomy students have significantly increased their demands for background check scrutiny over the past several years. Background checks will not be completed until 90 days prior to start of the of the program. If there are no clinical agencies that will accept the student based on the background check history, the student must be excused from the Phlebotomy program, regardless of the student's academic standing. This is explained in further detail in the Background Check Disclosure form listed above, under Admission Requirements.
- All Phlebotomy students are required to complete a Wisconsin Caregiver Background Check.
- After background checks are completed, students are expected to self report any changes.
- Health Sciences Health Form and Directions
- Health Form and Directions
- 1. Complete the HS Health Form and save it.
- 2. Follow instructions on the form for submission.
- Health Form and Directions
- Uniforms
- Uniforms
- This link provides a list of websites and local uniform shops that sell uniforms.
- Find the Health Sciences Professional Expectations and Dress Code in the Health Sciences Student Policies (HS-24).
- Uniforms
- Complete and Give to your Instructor
- Functional Abilities Disclosure - listed above under Admission Requirements. Read the functions and initial/sign the last page as described. Submit to instructor by designated due date.
- Health Sciences Confidentiality Statement
- Additional Information
- 2024-25 Phlebotomy Textlist
- 2024-25 Phlebotomy Program Cost Sheet
- Insurance Information
- Phlebotomy Program Technology Needs
- Student Biographical Change Request Please print and use this form if you change your name, address, or phone number(s). You should submit it to your local Student Services to be certain that the changes are entered in the main computer system.
Phlebotomy Withdrawal
- Instructions for Withdrawal from Phlebotomy Core Courses
- If you are on this web page, it means your Phleb Academic Advisor has been notified that you dropped your PhT core (513-XXX) courses.
- If you are withdrawing from your Phleb core (513-XXX) courses, the Phleb program would like to gather data regarding your decision to withdraw. This data is useful in the Phleb planning process. Thank you for providing this information.
- Please carefully review the Withdrawal from the Phlebotomy Program form. Complete the form and email it to marijo.ulrich@northwoodtech.edu or print and mail this form within one month of your exiting the program to the following address:
Mari Jo Ulrich
Northwood Technical College
2100 Beaser Ave.
Ashland, WI 54806- If you have questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact Mari Jo Ulrich, Dean of Health Sciences, at marijo.ulrich@northwoodtech.edu or 715-319-7282.
- If you are on this web page, it means your Phleb Academic Advisor has been notified that you dropped your PhT core (513-XXX) courses.
Technology Requirements
If using Macintosh or Linux based computers, coursework must be submitted using your Office365 tools provided with your Northwood Tech email account. It is important to verify with your Program Faculty if non-Windows based computers are acceptable in the program.