Routine Blood Collections
1 step in the blood collection process
What is the Test Requisition?
What is a Blood Smear?
What is a thin film of blood spread onto a microscopic glass slide?
What are the different methods of Specimen delivery methods?
What is Hand Delivery, Pneumatic tube systems, and Automated Carrier?
Who can order a test
What is a Physician, Physician assistant, Nurse Practitioners ?
Additive in the Gray tube
What is Sodium Fluoride, Antiglycolytic
What angle do you preform a venipuncture?
What is 15-30 degrees?
When and where should you place the label?
What is right after accessing the patient and on the tube/container?
What is the reason of the Chain of Custody?
To ensure proper handling of a specimen
PHI stands for:
What is Personal Health Information?
State the correct order: Royal Blue, Light Blue, Light Green
What is light blue, light green, royal blue?
What is the proper way to anchor a vein?
What is Placing the thumb of your nondominant hand approximately two inches below the sit of insertion and hold firmly with a slight distal tug downwards?
When should blood-spot testing be done on newborns?
What is between 24-72 hours of birth?
3 Types of Drug Testing
What is workplace drug testing, sports related drug testing, neonatal drug testing.
Time you are in a basal state:
What is when you wake up?
Testing done using a red top tube
What is Serum testing, HIV, Blood typing, Drug levels
What should you do when a patient has cold hands/ fingers?
What is Ask the patient to rub their hands together, close their hand a few times, place hand below heart level, or anything to increase blood flow into the hand?
What is therapeutic phlebotomy?
What is the intentional removal of blood to lower red blood cells?
3 systems of laboratory informatics
What are manual systems, semi-automated systems, automated systems?
Steps to take if patient shows signs of Syncope
What is putting them in supine position, locking the arm rest?
Tube that tests for Ammonia Levels
What is the dark green tube?
Name the 4 commonly used anticoagulants
What is Sodium Citrate, EDTA, Heparin, and Potassium oxalate/Sodium Fluoride?
What is Iatrogenic Anemia caused by?
What is caused by blood loss due to repeated venipunctures in a short period of time?
Glucose level of 50mg/dL is considered:
A critical value, low
Why should you not draw from a site with edema in the area?
The fluid surrounding the area may complicate the test results.
Order of draw AND their additives
Light Blue (Sodium Citrate), Red (None), Gold (SST), Light Green (Sodium Heparin), Dark Green (Lithium Heparin), Lavender (EDTA), Royal Blue (Element free), Gray(Sodium Fluoride)