Routine Venipuncture
To examine by touch or feel?
What is to palpate.
This means of transmission is the transfer of an infectious agent by insect, arthropod, or animal.
What is vector transmission?
This cellular structure contains the chromosomes and is called the command center of a cell.
What is nucleus?
This system is used most commonly for venipuncture because it is direct, efficient, and safe.
What is ETS system?
If the extremity is bluish in color, it is said to be.
What is cyanotic?
This information is written on the tubes after performing your blood draw.
What is the date and time of collection, and the phlebotomist's initials.
This is the inner layer of a blood vessell.
What is tunica intima?
It is important to note which type of heparin is in a collection because types if can affect this.
What are test results?
A sharp pointed device used to make a capillary puncture.
What is a lancet?
What you should do when a patient has had a mastectomy on both sides or there is no suitable site other than an arm on a mastectomy site.
What is consult the patient's physician and get written permission to draw from an arm on a mastectomy side.
An inspector from this organization checks engineering controls and PPE compliance.
Who is OSHA?
This vein is the only vein that carries oxygenated blood from the lungs back to the heart.
What is the pulmonary vein?
This substance inhibits the clotting of blood?
What is anticoagulant?
Capillary blood most closely resembles this type of blood.
What is arterial?
What is the most critical error a phlebotomist can make?
What is misidentify the patient specimen.
Using safety needles to draw blood is an example of this type of control?
What is work practice control?
Known as the "master gland".
What is the pituitary gland?
The slanted tip of the needle is called this.
What is the bevel?
What is increases blood flow?
Bending the arm to apply pressure to the site after venipuncture causes this.
This policy requires all blood and body fluids to be treated as if they were potentially infectious for HIV and HBV.
What is Standard Precaution?
This term means farthest from the point of attachment.
What is distal?
Exposure of blood to comtaminants can be avoided if the phlebotomist uses this system for blood draws.
What is the ETS tube system?
This is the safest area on an infant's foot for capillary puncture.
What is medial plantar surface?