Venipuncture Routine
List veins in order and which vein you should draw from first?
What is Median, Cephalic, and Basilic; Median
The biggest blood borne disease for phlebotomist?
What is Hepatitis B
What is the additive in the light blue tube
What is Sodium Citrate
What do you clean the skin with prior to venipuncture?
Alcohol wipe
What is the name of bleeding under the skin?
What is Hematoma
What do you do with the tubes after successfully collecting blood?
What is Label tubes with date, time, and initial
What is the best way to reduce a spread of infection?
wash hands with soap and water
What tube is used for CBC?
Lavender
If allergic to latex gloves what other type of gloves would you use?
What is nitrile gloves
What is the red dots that could appear on skin called?
What is petechiae
If patient have a left side mastectomy and a IV in the right arm are what would you do?
What is ask nurse to remove IV
If an electrical accident occur with a employee or patient, what should you do?
What is shut off the electrical power
When drawing for blood cultures which tubes out of aerobic and anaerobic would you use first?
What is Aerobic
If patient arm becomes sore when tying a tourniquet what should you do?
What is tie tourniquet above patient sleeve
Patient is pale and diaphoretic
What is Syncope
What is it called when you touch/feel a venipuncture site.
What is Palpate
When handling bodily fluids what PPE do you wear?
What is Gloves, Gown
What anticoagulant is contained in a PST tube?
Heparin
If a patient is allergic to the normal alcohol wipe what other wipe should you use?
What is Iodine wipe
When going to stick a patient and they pull their arm away what would you do?
What is Ask could you continue the draw
If your drawing a blood with a red top tube and a blue top tube and the red doesn't fill all the way what would you do?
What is get another red tube and see if it fills
Compressions to breathe ratio
30:2
List the order of draw with additive
What is A/A, SPS (Brown/Yellow), Sodium Citrate (Light blue), SST II (Gold), SST (Red), Heparin (Green), EDTA (lavender), Cross Match (Pink), Fluoride Oxalate (grey), Trace Element (Dark Blue)
What is the proper location to anchor the vein?
What is 2in below where you stick
If patient starts to have a seizure during draw, what should you do?
what is discontinue the draw