2026 NHA PHLEBOTOMY EXAMS SCRIPT CORRECT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Hematoma - ✔✔Accumulation of blood under skin
✔✔Phlebitis - ✔✔Inflammation of the vein
✔✔Thrombus - ✔✔Blood clot
✔✔Petechaie - ✔✔Tiny hemorrhage
✔✔Thrombophlebitis - ✔✔Infected clot in vein
✔✔Spticemia - ✔✔Infection in the blood
✔✔Trauma - ✔✔Bruses
✔✔When is povidone iodine solution used? - ✔✔For collections that require more
stringent infection control ex blood cultures and arterial punctures
✔✔When is chlorhexidine gluconate used? - ✔✔For those allergic to iodine and tests
for alcohol
✔✔What should you do when antibodies are produced in response to an infection? -
✔✔The specimen must be kept warm until the serum is separated from the cells
✔✔What specimens must be chilled immediately after collection? - ✔✔ABG blood
gases, ammonia, latic acid, pyruvate, ACTH, gastrin and parathyroid hormone
✔✔Which specimens must be protected from light after collection? - ✔✔Bilirubin, beta
carotene, vitamin A & B6 and prophyrins
, ✔✔Where should dermal puncture be preformed for adult? - ✔✔Distal segment of third
or fourth finger of non dominant hand
✔✔Where should dermal puncture be preformed for infant less than 1 year? - ✔✔The
heel cant go deeper than 2 mm
✔✔What is order of draw for capillary punctures? - ✔✔Lavender, tubes with additives,
tubes with no additives
✔✔Pre analytical errors - ✔✔Patient misidentification, inadequate fast, patient posture,
poor coordination with other treatment
✔✔Post analytical erros - ✔✔Processing delays, failure to separate serum from cells,
rimming clots
✔✔Intra/ Co analytical errors - ✔✔Under filling tubes
✔✔After draw the patient begins to twitch and shake and her eyes roll back what should
PT do - ✔✔Observe patient and help protect against injury
✔✔If before draw pattient was very talkative and after draw becomes quiet and stares
blankly you should? - ✔✔Ask if he or she is okay and feels faint
✔✔When collecting blood in an evacuated tube hemolysis would occur with which
gauge needle> - ✔✔25'
✔✔What are signs PT should recognize on patient during venipuncture? - ✔✔Cold,
calmmy, and diaphoretic skin
✔✔If a patient turns pale and complains of nausea when PT is about to collect these
are signs of what - ✔✔Syncope
✔✔Where should a PT document test preformed with regent products as part of
protocol - ✔✔On a quality control log
✔✔To ensure safety of PT and psychiatric patients and others a PT should - ✔✔Bring
all necessary equipment to patients room
✔✔What does SST in a collection tube indicate - ✔✔To indicate if plasma is used and
distinguish weather a collection tube contains serum or plasma
✔✔Because of time between collection and plasma separation the PT should -
✔✔Centrifuge specimen
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Hematoma - ✔✔Accumulation of blood under skin
✔✔Phlebitis - ✔✔Inflammation of the vein
✔✔Thrombus - ✔✔Blood clot
✔✔Petechaie - ✔✔Tiny hemorrhage
✔✔Thrombophlebitis - ✔✔Infected clot in vein
✔✔Spticemia - ✔✔Infection in the blood
✔✔Trauma - ✔✔Bruses
✔✔When is povidone iodine solution used? - ✔✔For collections that require more
stringent infection control ex blood cultures and arterial punctures
✔✔When is chlorhexidine gluconate used? - ✔✔For those allergic to iodine and tests
for alcohol
✔✔What should you do when antibodies are produced in response to an infection? -
✔✔The specimen must be kept warm until the serum is separated from the cells
✔✔What specimens must be chilled immediately after collection? - ✔✔ABG blood
gases, ammonia, latic acid, pyruvate, ACTH, gastrin and parathyroid hormone
✔✔Which specimens must be protected from light after collection? - ✔✔Bilirubin, beta
carotene, vitamin A & B6 and prophyrins
, ✔✔Where should dermal puncture be preformed for adult? - ✔✔Distal segment of third
or fourth finger of non dominant hand
✔✔Where should dermal puncture be preformed for infant less than 1 year? - ✔✔The
heel cant go deeper than 2 mm
✔✔What is order of draw for capillary punctures? - ✔✔Lavender, tubes with additives,
tubes with no additives
✔✔Pre analytical errors - ✔✔Patient misidentification, inadequate fast, patient posture,
poor coordination with other treatment
✔✔Post analytical erros - ✔✔Processing delays, failure to separate serum from cells,
rimming clots
✔✔Intra/ Co analytical errors - ✔✔Under filling tubes
✔✔After draw the patient begins to twitch and shake and her eyes roll back what should
PT do - ✔✔Observe patient and help protect against injury
✔✔If before draw pattient was very talkative and after draw becomes quiet and stares
blankly you should? - ✔✔Ask if he or she is okay and feels faint
✔✔When collecting blood in an evacuated tube hemolysis would occur with which
gauge needle> - ✔✔25'
✔✔What are signs PT should recognize on patient during venipuncture? - ✔✔Cold,
calmmy, and diaphoretic skin
✔✔If a patient turns pale and complains of nausea when PT is about to collect these
are signs of what - ✔✔Syncope
✔✔Where should a PT document test preformed with regent products as part of
protocol - ✔✔On a quality control log
✔✔To ensure safety of PT and psychiatric patients and others a PT should - ✔✔Bring
all necessary equipment to patients room
✔✔What does SST in a collection tube indicate - ✔✔To indicate if plasma is used and
distinguish weather a collection tube contains serum or plasma
✔✔Because of time between collection and plasma separation the PT should -
✔✔Centrifuge specimen
