Practice Certification Exam

A patient report that during a previous blood draw he felt lightheaded and almost passed out. What should the phlebotomy technician do? Perform the draw with the patient reclined or in a supine position. A phlebotomy technician at a primary care clinic is performing venipuncture on a patient with suspected influenza. The patient is wearing a mask. What PPE should the technician wear? Gloves and a mask. A requisition calls for the following tests: CBC, CMP, and PTT. Which of the following reflects the proper order of draw? Citrate (blue top), SST (red top), and EDTA (lavender). Blood exits the heart through the body's largest artery, the _________ Aorta. What part of the evacuated tube system allows multiple collection tubes to be filled with one puncture? The interior needle/tube holder. When drawing a specimen for an ammonia test, what should a phlebotomy technician have ready for specimen transportation? An Ice slurry. A phlebotomy technician asks a patient to state and spell his name. He says, "Chris Morgan, C-H-R-I-S M-O-R-G-A-N." The name listed on the requisition is "Criss Morgan." What should the phlebotomy technician do? Call the ordering provider to resolve the issue and get a new requisition with the correct spelling if the spelling was an error. When a blood culture is ordered along with other tests, which tube is filled first? Yellow SPS. Which of these patient reactions should be documented, but is not a cause for discontinuing a draw or likely to affect analytes? Petechiae.