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Order of draw
A & P
Health History
100

In this stage of grief, the person may cry and feel helpless.

What is depression?

100

This blood tube is always drawn first if it is ordered.

What is the yellow tube or blood culture tube?

100

COPD is a disease of which organ?

What are the lungs?

100

These types of questions allow the medical assistant to gather more details from the patient regarding their chief complaint?  Open-ended or closed-ended questions?

What are open-ended questions?

200

In this stage of grief, people can't believe this is happening to them.

What is denial?

200

Which color tube will always be drawn last?

what is the gray tube?

200

Somebody with renal failure has disease of which organ?

kidneys

200

This type of information is from the subject's perception of what they are feeling.

What is subjective information?

300

In this stage of grief, the person may be begging for things to change. They may also make an agreement such as I will give up drinking if my liver will go back to normal.

What is bargaining?

300

This pneumonic (saying or phrase) helps you remember the correct order of draw.

What is Young Boys Rarely Get Lovely Girls?

300

Somebody with kidney disease needs to limit their intake of these minerals.  Must get 2 of 3

What is salt, phosphorus and potassium?

300

This type of information is from what can be observed from the MA and others.

What is objective information?

400

In this stage of grief, the person may be irritable and yell.

What is anger?

400

What is the correct order of draw if your patient has been ordered labs that require a lavender, green and red tube?

What is red, green and lavender?

400

These hair like projections move microbes up and out of the airways.

What are cilia?

400

Asking information from the patient in front of others in the waiting room is a violation of what law?

What is HIPAA?
500

In this stage of grief the person begin to plan for a future without that person.

What is acceptance?

500

This is the color on the tubes that have EDTA used as an anticoagulant.

What is lavender?

500

This organelle of the cell has a central role in energy production for the cell and the body.

What is mitochondria?

500

This is the primary reason a person is seeing a provider today.

What is the chief complaint?