Chapters 1-2
This is Mr. Ingram's birthday.
What is November 2?
This is a patient being brought unconscious into the emergency room but treatment should still be given by the staff for the best interest of the patient's health.
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?
What is the additive collected in a light green tube?
What is lithium heparin?
This is the laboratory test result affected most if povidine-iodine is used.
What is potassium level?
This must be applied to assess the 2nd option for a venipuncture attempt.
What is a tourniquet and the cephalic vein?
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 range of needle insertion into the median cubital vein during a venipuncture attempt.
What is 15 to 30 degrees?
This is known as the opening of a needle and the position that it must be in.
What is bevel up?
This is what a phlebotomy technician would use to clean a cerebral spinal specimen spill.
What is chlorine bleach?
This extinguisher is used to put out a centrifuge, electrical fire.
What is a Class 'C' fire-extinguisher?
This is the additive in the tube if the provider requests a dark green tube from your tray.
What is sodium heparin?
This is what causes a hematoma.
What is the bevel is partially inserted in the vein -OR- what is direct pressure is not applied long enough to stop the bleeding?
This is ensuring that equipment being used is functioning accurately and properly.
What is quality control?
This organizations oversees the investigation and control of various diseases, especially those that are communicable.
What is the CDC?
This is the root word of the word oliguria.
What is oli?
This is the colored top tube that a potassium oxalate or lactic acid specimen should to be collected in.
What is a gray top 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 minimum number of identifiers The Joint Commission requires.
What is two?
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 to 4 inches above the venipuncture site?