Chapters 1-2
This is required for positive identification of a patient in an outpatient facility
What is: picture ID, full name, date of birth?
This is a phlebotomist giving aid during an emergency and being usually protected by this.
What is implied consent?
This is what the abbreviation RACE stands for regarding the response to a fire.
What is rescue, alert, confine, and extinguish?
This is another name for thrombocytes.
What are platelets?
This is the laboratory test result affected most if the patient is not fasting.
What are triglycerides?
This is required to perform a blood collection in an outpatient setting.
What is the patient's billing information and test status?
This is the voluntary permission by a patient to allow touching, examination, and/or treatment by health care providers.
What is informed consent?
This is the first thing that the health care provider does if an electrical accident occurs involving electrical shock to an employee or a patient.
What is shut off the electrical power?
This is what whole blood consists mostly of.
What is water?
This the appropriate angle of needle insertion into the skin during a venipuncture attempt.
What is 15 to 30 degrees?
This is known as a Greek derivative of the word phlebotomy.
What is bloodletting?
This is what a phlebotomy technician would use to clean a cerebral spinal specimen spill.
What is chlorine bleach?
This is the root of the word hydrothrombitis.
What is thromb?
This is the equipment that you will need to draw a CBC (complete blood count) on a 7-month-old infant.
What is a lancet with a 2-mm depth and an EDTA microcollection container?
Besides not stopping the bleeding after a venipuncture attempt, this is a reason for a hematoma formation.
What is the needle is partially inserted in the vein?
Acute care is known as this type of hospital setting.
What is 'short-term'?
This organizations oversees the investigation and control of various diseases, especially those that are communicable.
What is the CDC?
This is the suffix of the word oliguria.
What is uria?
This is the colored top tube that a blood cell count requires whole blood to be collected in.
What is a lavender colored tube?
This is what should stop the health care worker from collecting blood from a patient’s right or left arm vein.
What is a mastectomy on the same side?
This is the response the technician should make upon noticing that the patient's identification band is sitting on the bedside table before attempting a blood draw.
What is "I will ask the nurse to replace the ID band?"
This is the greatest risk for exposure after a phlebotomy technician experiences a needlestick injury while performing a draw.
What is Hepatitis B?
This is the initial step required to control severe bleeding.
What is apply pressure directly over the wound or venipuncture site?
This the colored tube that a PT/INR is used to draw for anticoagulant testing.
What is a light blue colored tube?
This is where the tourniquet should be placed on the patient during the venipuncture procedure.
What is 3 inches above the venipuncture site?