Color Order
What is the first test that can, and should be ordered, according to the Order of the Draw?
What are Blood Cultures?
This tube is traditionally used to check coagulation studies.
What is a light blue tube?
What additive exists in the blood culture bottles?
What is a Nutrient Broth?
PT, Digoxin Level, Ammonia
The largest mistake a phlebotomist can make is the following:
What is misidentifying a patient?
Which tube gets drawn first Light Green, or Dark Green?
What is Dark Green?
This test requires two bottles, one aerobic bottle, and one anaerobic bottle. We hope we (won't) see anything growing!
What are Blood Cultures?
The light green and dark green tubes use which additives?
What is Lithium Heparin?
INR, Lipid Panel
What is:
Red
Light Blue
Gold/Tiger Top
This type of consent is used for minors.
What is Consent by Proxy?
When drawing this colored tube with a "winged infusion kit", you are required to draw a "cast-off" tube.
What is a light-blue tube?
This test is done on a baby to check for jaundice.
What is a Bilirubin test?
The additive in a light blue tube is:
What is Sodium Citrate?
BMP, CMP, CBC, Stat Lytes
What is:
Gold/Tiger TopLight Green
Lavender
When separated, blood can be divided into two portions, plasma and serum. What is the majority serum portion, after the plasma has been removed?
What is red blood cells?
Which tube is drawn first, a pink tube, or a lavender tube?
What is a pink tube?
This colored tube is used predominately for tests that investigate disorders of the blood, such as: ESR (Sedimentation Rate), Sickle Cell, CBC, Hematocrit, Hemoglobin, and Platelets
What are Lavender Tubes?
The yield of a Gold or Tiger Top tube is what?
What is a Serum?
Serum Pregnancy, STAT LYTES
Gold/ Tiger Top
Light GreenThis type of consent is used for a specific, stigma-ridden STD test. It must be completed in writing and expressed to the patient.
What is HIV Consent?
This test is the last expected draw, which tube are we looking for?
What is OGT - Ol' Gray Tube?
This tube requires special consideration, as cleaning with alchol can net a false-positive result. Which tube am I?
What is the gray tube?
The chemical additive in a Lavender tube is known as:
What is EDTA?
Plasma Pregnancy, Stat Lytes, CBC
Light Green
Lavender Top
A patient has come in, and has expressed that she has had a mastectomy on her left side. In spite of this, she says that she is right handed, and would prefer blood to be drawn on her left.
What is the appropriate side to draw on for this patient?
What is the right side, or the side without lymph involvement.
Your requisition form comes in, in no particular order, you see the following tubes:
Pink, Dark Green, Red
What is the appropriate order?What is:
Red, Dark Green, Pink
This test is often drawn in an emergency capacity, in order to quickly determine the electrolyte balance in the body.
What are Stat Lytes?
The chemical additive in a pink tube is known as:
What is Potassium EDTA?
ESR, Sickle Cell, BMP, CMP, CBC, Lactic Acid, ESR
Gold/ Tiger Top
Lavender|
Gray
What is the number one Blood Born Pathogen in the United States?
What is Hepatitis B?
*Your employer in a healthcare setting has a legal requirement to offer the Hep B vaccine within 10 days of starting a position in which BBP's are a concern.
Your requisition form comes in, in no particular order, you see the following tubes:
Gold/ Tiger Top, Gray, Dark Green, Light Green, Light Blue
What is the appropriate order?
What is:
What is Red, Light Blue, Gold/Tiger Top, Light Green, Dark Green, & Gray
These base-line labs are ordered to determine baseline metabolic health, and for screening purposes. You will use a Gold/Tiger Top tube.
What is a BMP & CMP (Basic Metabolic Panel & Complete Metabolic panel).
The additive in a gray top tube is:
What is Potassium Oxalate?
Type and Screen Ratio (TSR), Cross Match, Stat Lytes
Light Green
Pink
Using a larger gauge needle with the express purpose of administering undo pain to a patient is considered what?
What is a Tort, or Battery
Please give the full Order of the Draw.
What is:
Bread Loaves Rise, Good/Tasty, Lovely Dough Pastries Look Good
Blood Cultures, Light Blue, Gold/Tigertop, Light Green, Dark Green, Pink, Lavender, Gray
This test is commonly ordered for patients suspected of kidney disease, or with kidney issues. It must be transported on ice. You will use a dark green tube.
What is an Ammonia test?
The yield of a red tube is a:
What is a Serum?
Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT), INR, Digoxin Level, Lactic Acid, Bilirubin, BMP, CMP, & CBC
What is:
Red
Light Blue
Red
Gold/Tiger Top
Lavender
Gray
When attempting to draw blood from a patient in a hospital, you notice that his arm band does not match the identifying information on your requisition form. The patient is quick to confirm that he is, in fact, the correct patient. It is simply the bracelet that is incorrect. Do you proceed?
What is: NO. The inpatient arm band must match the requisition form. You will need to contact a nurse, or supervisor to have the correct band administered prior to draw.