Phlebotomy
This microcollection container is used to collect a CBC, or complete blood count
What is lavender?
Anyone administering medications by any route should use these 2 patient identifiers as a minimum.
What is Name and Date of Birth?
The knowledge of right & wrong conduct..
What is ethics?
The amount of time on an ECG strip represented by a little block.
What is 0.4 seconds?
You would use this acronym during a fire to help respond safely and correctly to the event.
What is RACE?
These specimen types are used to help diagnose tuberculosis, certain pneumonias and other types of pulmonary diseases.
What is a sputum sample?
Your 1 year old patient weighs 19 pounds. Convert this to kilograms (kg) ______ kg
What is 41.8 kg?
This automatic protector is stimulated or activated when you are excited, exercising or scared.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Little block, Memory method, 6 second method
What ways to calculate heart rate on an ECG strip?
This is the first thing you should do upon coming up to a scene prior to even touching a patient.
What is Scene Safety assessment?
These are common types of blood specimens require immediate chilling.
What is ammonia, lactic acid and glucagon (there are more)?
You have to administer a varicella vaccine to a 12 month old. Your office is short staffed today. You have the child’s father read the label back to you to double check your medication, because it is in a pre-filled syringe, this will be OK today.
What is No or False?
This the standard abbreviation for a health (insurance) maintenance organization to which subscribers pay a predetermined fee in return for a range of medical services from physicians and healthcare workers registered with the organization.
What is HMO?
A chaotic, variable picture of electrical impulses coming from various focal points all through the heart. This leads to lack of any mechanical pump and essentially the heart just quivering in the chest. (show picture of strip)
What is ventricular fibrillation?
This report shall be filled out after any occurrence which results in or could have resulted in injury to an employee, this will be required by your employer.
What is an Employee Accident/incident report?
These are some of the common types of blood specimen require protection from light.
What is bilirubin, Vitamin B-12, carotene and folate are accepted, there are others.
Type of medication, Depth of tissue penetration, required Volume of medication, Viscosity of medication, and Size of the patient.
What are considerations when choosing a syringe and needle?
This is the term that generally means reducing or eliminating pathogens. This term can be separated into medical and surgical, to determine the extent of germ eradication.
What is asepsis?
This is the inherent rate of the AV junction of the heart.
What is 40-60 bpm?
You use common sense, office policy and past experience to help you manage or prioritizing which patients need to be seen/talked to (via phone call) in what order, or sent off to a higher level of care based on presenting symptoms, situations & other external factors.
What is Triage?
This is the most critical aspect of blood culture collection.
What is skin antisepsis?
Patient, Drug, Dose, Route, Time. You could add documentation & Right to Refuse.
What are the 5 patient rights of medication administration?
This is a signed consent to release information that has to contain the patient's name, DOB, the facility releasing the records and the facility receiving the records, as well as details as to what can be released and for what duration.
What is an ROI, or "Release of Information"
The rhythm where P waves are regular and are at an atrial rate, and QRS are wide, regular and at a ventricular rate, but there is no correlation/marriage between the Ps & QRS complexes. (Show image)
What is 3rd degree heart block?
Gloves, gown, mask, eye goggles are examples of this.
What is PPE, personal protective equipment?