Non-Blood Collections
The bacteria that a breath sample tests for.
What is Helicobactor Pylori or H. Pylori?
Loss of conciousness
What is Syncope?
The incision of a vein for collecting a blood sample for laboratory testing.
What is Phlebotomy?
The type of PPE most frequently used by a PBTs.
What are gloves?
Before and after the draw this must be done.
When to identify the patient?
Amount of time serum tubes should clot for.
What is 30-60 minutes?
The goal of this act is to ensure that workers have a safe workplace.
What is OSHA?
Hidden blood in the stool.
What is Occult Blood?
Red blood cells
What are Erythrocytes?
Where a tourniquet is placed on the patient and for how long.
What is 3-4 inches above puncture site and 1 minute?
How long to wash hands with soap and water.
What is at least 20 seconds.
Patients a phlebotomist should show kindness and empathy to.
Who are all patients?
A series of related activities or tasks that when completed achieve a desired outcome.
What are processes?
Organization that is often involved in accrediting healthcare facilities.
What is the Joint Commision?
Collecting urine sample in the morning/upon waking.
What is First void?
This stops the blood from clotting.
What is Anticoagulant?
This is the purpose of tourniquet use during venipuncture.
What is to slow blood flow into and out of the area of a blood draw.
Will also accept help palpate adequate vein for blood draw.
Anchoring the vein should be here.
What is 1-2 inches below the puncture site?
The support that a business/person provides to its customers before, during, and after they purchase a product or service.
What is Customer Service?
Used to remove the air from the tubing of a butterfly needle set up during specific collections otherwise the tube will underfill by .5ml.
What is a discard tube?
Violations of this act are both criminal and civil.
What is HIPPA?
The patient cleans the genital area and voids first urine into the toilet before catching midstream and last drop is not caught in the container.
What is a clean catch routine urine specimen?
The cells that function is to help the blood clot.
What are Thrombocytes or platelets?
Alcohol, iodine, chlorhexidine
What are types of antiseptics used for venipuncture?
PPE that should be worn when accepting a drop off sample.
What are gloves?
ABN
What is an Advanced Beneficiary Notice?
The Cholestech machine and Glucometer use these 2 methods for calculating results.
What are Reflectance Photometry and Electrochemistry?
Two programs that are run by the CMS.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
Nasopharyngeal specimen is collected here.
What is the back of the nasal cavity?
A hereditary disease where the body produces thick mucus resulting in severe congestion in lungs, pancreases, and intestines.
What is Cystic fibrosis?
The angle a straight needle should be inserted.
What is 30?
To kill all microorganisms and pathogens.
What is Sterilization?
Disinfection destroys most but not all.
All the information needed and matched to properly identify a patient. (info and on what and how?)
What is full name and date of birth on requisition, on specimen labels, and spoken by the patient.
Percentage of Formalin and ZN-PVA fixture in a ParaPak container.
What is 10%?
What is The Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act?