A patient reports that during a previous blood
draw he felt lightheaded and almost passed
out. What should ...Answer Is...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? ...Answer Is...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? ...Answer Is...Citrate, SST, EDTA
Blood exits the heart through the body's largest
artery, the ________________. ...Answer Is...Aorta
What part of the evacuated tube system allows
multiple collection tubes to be filled with one
puncture? ...Answer Is...The interior needle/tube holder
When drawing a specimen for an ammonia
test, what should a phlebotomy technician
have ready for specimen transportation? ...Answer Is...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? ...Answer Is...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? ...Answer Is...Yellow SPS
Which of these patient reactions should be
documented, but is not a cause for discontinuing
a draw or likely to affect analytes? ...Answer Is...Petechiae
A phlebotomy technician is performing a
venipuncture collection on a young adult and
needs to draw a citrate tube, a serum separator
tube, and an EDTA tube. The citrate tube
and SST fill quickly. The EDTA tube fills partway
and then blood flow stops. What is the
most likely explanation? ...Answer Is...The tube's vacuum is compromised.
Scars cover the arms and hands of a patient
whose requisition requires CBC and electrolytes.
After finding no acceptable venipuncture
site on either arm or hand, the phlebotomy
technician sees that the scarring does not