Routine Blood Collections
After placing the tourniquet on a patient's arm, these are the small, microcapillary, red spots below the tourniquet.
What is petechiae?
The reason that a phlebotomy technician should place a specimen in a biohazard bag for transport to an outside laboratory.
What is the biohazard bag prevents a possible exposure?
Besides the minimum standard, the reason a phlebotomy technician should use this personal protective equipment for the patient with scabies.
What is a gown?
The method the phlebotomy technician uses to ensure the proper functioning of point of care instruments accurately or correctly.
What is quality control?
These are the tubes that the phlebotomy technician must use to draw a complete blood count, clot activator, glucose, and SPS for testing.
What are lavender (or pink), red. gray and yellow tubes?
The phlebotomy technician retrieves this tube top color from their tray to draw a lactic acid test.
What is a gray topped tube.
The action taken when a phlebotomy technician notices swelling and a large hematoma forming at the venipuncture site.
What is remove the tourniquet and needle?
These are the instructions a phlebotomy technician gives when instructing the patient on collecting a sputum specimen at home.
What is cough deeply and spit secretions into a container?
The process of identifying all personnel that possessed the blood specimen drawn at any given time.
What is chain of custody?
The gauge needle required that the phlebotomy technician uses for the patient that gives their consent upon arrival for their blood donation appointment.
What is an 18 gauge needle?
This is the bottle (with oxygen) that the phlebotomy technician must draw second when culture tests are requested.
What is an aerobic culture bottle?
The phlebotomy technician identifies the patient being at risk for this when they begin sweating heavily and getting pale.
What is syncope (fainting)?
This is the safeguard that the phlebotomy technician should implement and the personal protective equipment worn for the patient placed in an isolated environment.
What are airborne precautions and a N-95 mask?
The tube top color the phlebotomy technician must draw for a sodium polyanethol sulfonate test.
What is a yellow top tube?
The instructions the phlebotomy technician should give the patient who requires a urine specimen to detect pregnancy.
What is collect your first urine specimen of the morning?
This is the correct dermal order of draw the phlebotomy technician must draw for: lithium heparin, sodium citrate, sodium heparin, and CBC.
What is a lavender, dark green, light green and light blue tube?
This is the action a phlebotomy technician takes when shipping a specimen to a reference laboratory on a hot summer day.
What is placing specimens in a box with cold packs and a biohazard label?
This is the action the phlebotomy technician takes when they notice the patient's last name differs from the patient's provided identification as they arrive at the clinic with their requisition form.
What is contact the ordering provider to correct the requisition form?
The indication that a blood specimen remains in the lab and is able to still be referenced by appropriate personnel.
What is an accession number?
The total blood volume that should be taken from an infant who weighs 3.3 kg.
What is 330 ml?
The tube the phlebotomy technician must always draw first from the following: clot activator, sodium citrate, sterile culture, and EDTA tests.
What is a sterile culture tube?
This is the potential consequence of a phlebotomy technician mislabeling a blood bank specimen.
What is a fatal transfusion reaction?
This is the deepest angle that the phlebotomy technician can use along with the 3rd vein option to be accessed for a patient with a deep venipuncture attempt.
What is 30 degrees and the basilic vein?
This is the action that a phlebotomy technician should take when collecting an ammonia specimen, to slow down the metabolic process.
What is place the specimen tube in an ice-water slurry?
The proper order of draw for a phlebotomy technician who must draw a blood culture 'SET', a PTT (INR), and a EDTA test.
What is an anaerobic bottle, an aerobic bottle, a light blue tube, and a lavender (pink) tube?