Patient Communication
A type of question that can be answered with 'yes' or 'no'.
Closed-ended questions
Antiseptic used for blood cultures
Povidone-iodine
What you should do when you have to get a blood sample from an unconscious patient
Talk to them because they might still be able to hear you
A machine that spins the blood tubes at a high number of revolutions per minute
Centrifuge
The first tube in the Order of Draw (Not counting blood cultures)
Light blue
A type of communication that focuses on improving the physical and emotional well-being of the patient.
Therapeutic communication
Serum tubes should clot for this amount of time before centrifugation
30-60 minutes
An IV should be turned off for this long before performing a venipuncture on that arm
At least 2 minutes
Amount of time a specimen can be refrigerated without cells breaking down
Approximately 72 hours
Additive in the red topped tube
None
Engaging fully with and striving to understand the speaker's message.
Active listening
The max amount of blood volume you can collect from a child or infant over a 24 hour period
1%-5%
Mucus builds up in the body and causes difficulty breathing and digesting food
Cystic fibrosis
Substance that is undergoing analysis
Analyte
Last color in the Order of Draw
Grey topped tube
A thing that impacts communication due to differences between groups of individuals that can include variations in knowledge, skills, and beliefs
Cultural disparities
Requirements for a basal state
Fasting for 12-24 hours and limiting exercise
Amount of time that an infant screening card should be allowed to dry
At least 3 hours before being sent to the laboratory
Customized computer software package designed to record, process, manage, and store data from a variety of workflow processes associated with the lab using the computer network
Laboratory Information System (LIS)
Additive in the red/gray marbled tube
Silica particles to enhance clot formation
A series of steps that facilitate the exchange of a message and the acquisition of feedback.
Communication cycle
Need for a discard tube when using a winged collection set
If a coagulation tube is the first one needed
The use of one's own blood or tissue
autologous
A reason that chain of custody would be used
Blood alcohol testing, DNA testing, anything that could be used in court
Number of inversions for the light blue topped tube
3-4 inversions