Protect Yourself before you wreck yourself
Handwashing
The single most important step in breaking the chain of infection.
Chemistry is the lab department.
What area are electrolytes processed in?
Bilirubin
What lab test must be shielded from light?
An unconscious patient is brought to the emergency department, and several blood tests are ordered. A phlebotomy technician should collect the patients blood because he has received which of the following types of consent?
What is implied.
N95 Mask, gown, gloves
What is required for a patient on Airborne Precautions?
Place the specimen on an ice slurry
Lactic Acid
Malpractice.
What is Negligence by a professional person?
In a sharps container.
Where should you place a used needle?
Treating all patients as if they were hazardous and full of waste?
What is universal precautions.
Red and White Blood cell counts
What are examples of test that go to hematology for processing?
Joint Commission
Hospitals are accredited by?
A phlebotomy technician is assembling the equipment he will need for collecting donor units of blood. Which of the following needle sizes should the technician select?
What is the needle size for blood donation?
A phlebotomy technician is preparing to collect a vancomycin peak level for a patient in an inpatient setting. Which of the following actions should the technician take prior to collecting the blood specimen?
Very last dose given and next dose due?
Microbiology
IF a MD is diagnosing sepsis, what lab department will he be calling to get the results?
What is petechiae?
After placing the tourniquet on a patients arm, the phlebotomist notices small red spots below the tourniquet.
Cardiovascular system
Hearts, Arteries, Capillaries, Veins are all part of the?