Safety and Compliance
What is the minimum PPE for drawing blood?
What are gloves and face shield?
What do you use to clean the veins before a venipuncture?
What is isopropyl alcohol?
What is the most common side effect of having blood drawn?
What is hematoma?
What is it called when you touch or feel for a vein
What is palpitate?
Additive in the light blue tube
What is sodium citrate?
Slapping the arm to find a vein could possibly lead to a charge of...
What is battery?
if a patient sticks out their arm what kind of consent is given?
What is syncope?
What is fainting?
Where should you draw from if the patient had a double mastectomy?
Hands
Additive in the lavender tube
What is EDTA?
Which of the following items should the phlebotomist place into sharps containers?
What is broken glass capillary tubes?
When do you use iodine to clean the puncture site?
What is a blood culture test
What is it called when the red blood cells break apart?
What is hemolysis?
What is the most critical error a phlebotomist can make?
What is misidentifies the patient specimens or not identify the patient?
Additive in the light green or plasma tube
What is heparin?
If a phlebotomist is poked/stuck with a dirty needle what should they do?
What is wash the area and run underwater for at least 15 minutes?
What is the maximum amount of time you should keep the tourniquet on the patient?
What is 1 minute?
What should do if the patient has a seizure in the middle of a venipuncture?
What is to stop the draw and pop the tourniquet, tube, and needle?
What is the vein located in the center of the arm?
What is median cubital?
When drawing blood cultures, which tube should you draw first aerobic or anaerobic?
What is aerobic
What is the term for a healthcare-acquired infection
What is nosocomial infection?
If the patient decides they want to stop the procedure what should you do?
What is immediately stop the procedure?
What should you do if the patient has an urgent heart-related problem?
What is stop the procedure immediately?
How do you finish a blood draw?
What is a tourniquet, tube, needle?
List the order of draw by color and additive
What is...
Yellow-sterile
light blue- sodium citrate
red- no additive
gold- separating gel and clot activators
light green- gel and lithium heparin
green- sodium heparin
lavender- EDTA
grey- sodium fluoride and potassium oxalate