NPS PHLEBOTOMY CERTIFICATION EXAM
SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS COMPLETE REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Using your patient's personal information for any other reason than
providing optimal medical care is a violation of what?
Answer: HIPPAA
●● It is your job to help uphold HIPAA.
Answer: TRUE
●● Long nails could inhibit you from properly performing a procedure
and the bacteria that can grow under them could cause infection at the
procedure site.
Answer: TRUE
●● What is not an example of personal protection equipment?
Answer: BASEBALL CAP
●● If you get blood on your lab coat, it is okay to wait until the end of
the day to remove it.
Answer: FALSE
,●● After I read my employer's Exposure Control Plan on the date of
hire, I don't have to read it when it is revised.
Answer: FALSE
●● Pathogens require a ______.
Answer: HOST
●● Masks can lose their effectiveness with extended use.
Answer: TRUE
●● Goggles do not have to be disinfected regularly because they never
touch the patient.
Answer: FALSE
●● What is the first step in the gowning procedure?
Answer: WASH YOUR HANDS
●● The way you remove your PPE is not important.
Answer: FALSE
●● A vector is:
Answer: The methods by which a pathogen escapes the host and spreads
disease.
, ●● Hitting an artery during venipuncture:
Answer: can cause extensive damage and bleeding
●● If a collection tube loses its vacuum, this is the fault of the
phlebotomist due to poor procedure.
Answer: FALSE
●● The needle should be at a _____ degree angle when performing a
venipuncture?
Answer: 15-30
●● You should recap your needle after performing a venipuncture.
Answer: FALSE
●● Tube additives can affect specimens.
Answer: TRUE
●● WBC stands for:
Answer: WHITE BLOOD COUNT
●● If a patient is unconscious, who assumes consent?
Answer: THEIR PHYSCIAN
SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS COMPLETE REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Using your patient's personal information for any other reason than
providing optimal medical care is a violation of what?
Answer: HIPPAA
●● It is your job to help uphold HIPAA.
Answer: TRUE
●● Long nails could inhibit you from properly performing a procedure
and the bacteria that can grow under them could cause infection at the
procedure site.
Answer: TRUE
●● What is not an example of personal protection equipment?
Answer: BASEBALL CAP
●● If you get blood on your lab coat, it is okay to wait until the end of
the day to remove it.
Answer: FALSE
,●● After I read my employer's Exposure Control Plan on the date of
hire, I don't have to read it when it is revised.
Answer: FALSE
●● Pathogens require a ______.
Answer: HOST
●● Masks can lose their effectiveness with extended use.
Answer: TRUE
●● Goggles do not have to be disinfected regularly because they never
touch the patient.
Answer: FALSE
●● What is the first step in the gowning procedure?
Answer: WASH YOUR HANDS
●● The way you remove your PPE is not important.
Answer: FALSE
●● A vector is:
Answer: The methods by which a pathogen escapes the host and spreads
disease.
, ●● Hitting an artery during venipuncture:
Answer: can cause extensive damage and bleeding
●● If a collection tube loses its vacuum, this is the fault of the
phlebotomist due to poor procedure.
Answer: FALSE
●● The needle should be at a _____ degree angle when performing a
venipuncture?
Answer: 15-30
●● You should recap your needle after performing a venipuncture.
Answer: FALSE
●● Tube additives can affect specimens.
Answer: TRUE
●● WBC stands for:
Answer: WHITE BLOOD COUNT
●● If a patient is unconscious, who assumes consent?
Answer: THEIR PHYSCIAN
