NHA CPT CORRECT 2027 ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Common Test: Lavender Tubes - ✔✔CBC, ESR, Hemaglobin
✔✔Department: Lavender Tubes - ✔✔Hematology
✔✔Inversion: Lavender Tubes - ✔✔8-10 times
✔✔Specimen: Lavender Tubes - ✔✔Whole Blood
✔✔8th in order of draw - ✔✔Gray Tubes
✔✔Additive: Gray Tubes - ✔✔Sodium Fluoride and Potassium Oxalate
✔✔Common Test: Gray Tubes - ✔✔Lactic Acid, Blood Alcohol Levels, FBS, Glucose
Tolerance
✔✔Department: Gray Tubes - ✔✔Chemistry
✔✔Inversion: Grey Tubes - ✔✔8-10 times
✔✔Specimen: Grey Tubes - ✔✔Plasma
✔✔Additive: Tan Tubes - ✔✔K2, EDTA
✔✔Test: Tan Tubes - ✔✔Lead
✔✔Department: Tan Tubes - ✔✔Chemistry
✔✔Inversion: Tan Tubes - ✔✔Chemistry
,✔✔Specimen: Tan Tubes - ✔✔Plasma
✔✔Additive: Royal Blue - ✔✔Heparin, EDTA, None
✔✔Common Test: Royal Blue - ✔✔Toxiology, Trace Metal
✔✔Department: Royal Blue - ✔✔Chemistry
✔✔Inversion: Royal Blue - ✔✔8-10 Times
✔✔Specimen: Royal Blue - ✔✔Plasma or Serum
✔✔Additive: Black Tube - ✔✔Sodium Citrate
✔✔Common Test: Black Tubes - ✔✔ESR
✔✔Department: Black Tubes - ✔✔Chemistry
✔✔Inversion: Black Tubes - ✔✔8-10 times
✔✔Specimen: Black Tubes - ✔✔Whole Blood
✔✔1st vein of choice - ✔✔Median Cubital
✔✔2nd vein of choice/1st vein of choice for obese patients - ✔✔Cephalic
✔✔3rd vein of choice - ✔✔Basilic
✔✔1st choice area to stick for a venipuncture - ✔✔Antecubital area.
✔✔Point Of Care - ✔✔In a patient's home/bedside
✔✔What does NAACLS stand for? - ✔✔National Accrediting Agency for Clinical
Laboratory Sciences.
✔✔What does PPE stand for? - ✔✔Personal Protective Equipment
✔✔Verbal Communication - ✔✔The actual words spoken, the pace and tone of voice.
✔✔What does STAT mean? - ✔✔Short Turn Around Time
✔✔What is quality control? - ✔✔Daily controls that are used in analytical testing to
determine acceptable ranges of test results.
, ✔✔Iatrogenic Anemia - ✔✔Too much blood loss from a blood draw.
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Failure to act or perform duties according to the standards of the
profession.
✔✔Assault - ✔✔The threat of carrying out bodily harm.
✔✔Battery - ✔✔Actually touching or hurting someone.
✔✔Fomites - ✔✔Germs/doorknobs.
✔✔Standard of Care - ✔✔Is typically defined as the level and type of care that a
reasonably competent and skilled health care professional, with a similar background
and in the same medical community, would have provided under the circumstances that
led to the alleged malpractice; measuring stick.
✔✔Informed Consent - ✔✔Voluntary permission by a patient to allow touching after
given information.
✔✔Implied Consent - ✔✔Sticking arm out.
✔✔How long should you wash your hands? - ✔✔15 seconds
✔✔How long should patient's wait if they are dizzy? - ✔✔20 minutes
✔✔What does HIPAA stand for? - ✔✔Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act.
✔✔What's HIPAA? - ✔✔Protects security, privacy and confidentiality of personal health
information.
✔✔What does CLIA stand for? - ✔✔Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments.
✔✔What's CLIA? - ✔✔Federal guidelines that regulate all clinical laboratories across
the U.S.
✔✔Nosocomial - ✔✔Hospital acquired infections.
✔✔What does BBP stand for? - ✔✔Blood Born Pathogens.
✔✔Universal Precautions - ✔✔Treat all blood as if it was infected.
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Common Test: Lavender Tubes - ✔✔CBC, ESR, Hemaglobin
✔✔Department: Lavender Tubes - ✔✔Hematology
✔✔Inversion: Lavender Tubes - ✔✔8-10 times
✔✔Specimen: Lavender Tubes - ✔✔Whole Blood
✔✔8th in order of draw - ✔✔Gray Tubes
✔✔Additive: Gray Tubes - ✔✔Sodium Fluoride and Potassium Oxalate
✔✔Common Test: Gray Tubes - ✔✔Lactic Acid, Blood Alcohol Levels, FBS, Glucose
Tolerance
✔✔Department: Gray Tubes - ✔✔Chemistry
✔✔Inversion: Grey Tubes - ✔✔8-10 times
✔✔Specimen: Grey Tubes - ✔✔Plasma
✔✔Additive: Tan Tubes - ✔✔K2, EDTA
✔✔Test: Tan Tubes - ✔✔Lead
✔✔Department: Tan Tubes - ✔✔Chemistry
✔✔Inversion: Tan Tubes - ✔✔Chemistry
,✔✔Specimen: Tan Tubes - ✔✔Plasma
✔✔Additive: Royal Blue - ✔✔Heparin, EDTA, None
✔✔Common Test: Royal Blue - ✔✔Toxiology, Trace Metal
✔✔Department: Royal Blue - ✔✔Chemistry
✔✔Inversion: Royal Blue - ✔✔8-10 Times
✔✔Specimen: Royal Blue - ✔✔Plasma or Serum
✔✔Additive: Black Tube - ✔✔Sodium Citrate
✔✔Common Test: Black Tubes - ✔✔ESR
✔✔Department: Black Tubes - ✔✔Chemistry
✔✔Inversion: Black Tubes - ✔✔8-10 times
✔✔Specimen: Black Tubes - ✔✔Whole Blood
✔✔1st vein of choice - ✔✔Median Cubital
✔✔2nd vein of choice/1st vein of choice for obese patients - ✔✔Cephalic
✔✔3rd vein of choice - ✔✔Basilic
✔✔1st choice area to stick for a venipuncture - ✔✔Antecubital area.
✔✔Point Of Care - ✔✔In a patient's home/bedside
✔✔What does NAACLS stand for? - ✔✔National Accrediting Agency for Clinical
Laboratory Sciences.
✔✔What does PPE stand for? - ✔✔Personal Protective Equipment
✔✔Verbal Communication - ✔✔The actual words spoken, the pace and tone of voice.
✔✔What does STAT mean? - ✔✔Short Turn Around Time
✔✔What is quality control? - ✔✔Daily controls that are used in analytical testing to
determine acceptable ranges of test results.
, ✔✔Iatrogenic Anemia - ✔✔Too much blood loss from a blood draw.
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Failure to act or perform duties according to the standards of the
profession.
✔✔Assault - ✔✔The threat of carrying out bodily harm.
✔✔Battery - ✔✔Actually touching or hurting someone.
✔✔Fomites - ✔✔Germs/doorknobs.
✔✔Standard of Care - ✔✔Is typically defined as the level and type of care that a
reasonably competent and skilled health care professional, with a similar background
and in the same medical community, would have provided under the circumstances that
led to the alleged malpractice; measuring stick.
✔✔Informed Consent - ✔✔Voluntary permission by a patient to allow touching after
given information.
✔✔Implied Consent - ✔✔Sticking arm out.
✔✔How long should you wash your hands? - ✔✔15 seconds
✔✔How long should patient's wait if they are dizzy? - ✔✔20 minutes
✔✔What does HIPAA stand for? - ✔✔Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act.
✔✔What's HIPAA? - ✔✔Protects security, privacy and confidentiality of personal health
information.
✔✔What does CLIA stand for? - ✔✔Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments.
✔✔What's CLIA? - ✔✔Federal guidelines that regulate all clinical laboratories across
the U.S.
✔✔Nosocomial - ✔✔Hospital acquired infections.
✔✔What does BBP stand for? - ✔✔Blood Born Pathogens.
✔✔Universal Precautions - ✔✔Treat all blood as if it was infected.
