Routine Blood Collections
This is identified as the next step after removing a needle from a patient's arm.
What is engage/lock the needle safety device?
This is how often a phlebotomy technician should run quality control tests on point-of-care testing instruments.
What is daily?
This is the maximum needle angle that should be used when inserting a needle into a vein for venipuncture.
What is 30 degrees?
This is the tube top color you will draw when you review the physician's order for an SST requisition.
What is a gold tube top?
This is where a phlebotomy technician should collect a routine CBC from a healthy 10-month-old infant.
Where is either heel?
This is the tube top color a phlebotomist should draw when a PT/INR test is ordered.
What is a light blue tube?
According to OSHA standards, this is the vaccine that employers must offer to their phlebotomists at no cost.
What is the Hepatitis B vaccine?
This is the consent that occurs when a patient states, "I just do not like needles", yet rolls up her shirt sleeve and extends her arm.
What is implied consent?
This is identified as the additive that is used to prevent the breakdown of glucose.
What is sodium fluoride?
A phlebotomy technician must document the total volume of blood drawn from a patient to assess this potential risk.
What is iatrogenic anemia?
This is the vein located on the lateral (outside) portion of the patient's arm and should be the phlebotomist's second choice for a venipuncture attempt.
What is the cephalic vein?
In the case of a fire, this is what the RACE acronym stands for.
What is: Rescue, Alert, Confine & Extinguish/Evacuate?
This color signifies a health hazard in the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 704 Marking System.
What is blue?
This is transferring blood specimens into different, smaller portions for analysis.
What is aliquoting?
This regulation agency ensures that a phlebotomy technician is proficient to perform job duties and responsibilities.
What is CLIA?
This is the name synonymous with a capillary or fingerstick puncture.
What is a dermal puncture?
Infections that spread via droplets that are smaller than 5 microns in diameter require this type of precaution.
What are airborne precautions?
This is a patient agreeing to a procedure verbally or in writing on a form provided.
What is expressed consent?
Entering critical laboratory data is known as this part of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute's (CLISI) workflow phase.
What is the post examination phase?
When using a set of blood culture collection bottles, this one must be collected first.
What is anaerobic?
This is the needle gauge size that we have used for venipunctures (so far) which are encased within green/white packaging.
What is a 23 gauge needle?
This is the antiseptic solution the technician uses to prepare the insertion site when a patient is allergic to alcohol?
What is chlorhexidine?
A phlebotomy technician is required to obtain this from any blood donor prior to their donating blood as well as choosing this gauge needle size.
What is a complete medical history and an 18 gauge needle?
This is an identifier for a specimen as long as it remains in the laboratory.
What is an accession number?
This is done to ensure that a point of care, diabetic instrument is functioning correctly to produce results that will be consistent, if repeated over time.
What is a glucometer and quality control?