AMCA PHLEBOTOMY REVIEW
The CDC current routine infection control policy is called - Answers-Isolation Precaution
To prevent cross-contamination, you should_________________ between patients. -
Answers-Wash your hands
What kind of equipment are gloves considered? - Answers-Personal Proctective
Equipment (PPE)
If a patient falls what should you document? - Answers-Date, Time and location fall
(Incident Report)
What is the gray top usually used to draw - Answers-Glucose tolerance
What is the drawback of a 24 hr urine collection? - Answers-Patients cooperation
If you have a specimen that will be delayedby more than anhour because of the labe
workload, what should you do with the specimen you have obtained? - Answers-Still
send it to the lab
How should you properly clean a site for a standard veinapuncture? - Answers-70%
Alcohol in a circular motion
What should be checked on the patient's armband to verify the patient? - Answers-
Name and date of birth
What type of consent does surgery require? - Answers-Informed
What is the order of draw BY TUBE TOP COLOR for the following: CMP(SST). CBC
lavender, PT(lt blue), blood cultures. - Answers-Blood Cultures, PT, CMP, CBC
When should a blood tube be labeled by the phlebotomist? - Answers-After the
specimen has been collected
What technique for cleaning is used to collect blood cultures for patient with septicemia?
- Answers-Aseptic sterile technique
An exampleof implied consent for a blood draw is? - Answers-Holding their arm out
What does NPO stand for? - Answers-nothing by mouth
Normally the first test drawn for a patient with a FUO is? - Answers-Blood Culture
What do we call an unexpected patient death that is not related to illness? - Answers-
Sentnal event
, What is the additive in the green top? - Answers-Sodium Heparin
What documents would you refer to in case of a chemical spill? - Answers-Material
Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Collecting a sample from inside a patient's cheek is called a_____________ swab -
Answers-buccal
If a patient has a Right side Mastectomy, where would you draw blood from? - Answers-
Left side
Drawing an EDTA tube before a serum tube could produce a false
____________potassium and false ____________ calcium. - Answers-High; low
How do you hold a "butterfly" infusion set? - Answers-By the wings
Which requires a chain of custody form: AIDS test, forensic samples, PT/INR sample,
C-diff test - Answers-Foresic Sample
Mucus from the lungs is called what? - Answers-Sputum
T or F: The lab would reject a light blue tube with a 7:1 ratio? - Answers-True 9:1
In the chain of infection the host can become the: - Answers-Resevoir
When you are doing a bleeding time test, what should the blood pressure cuff beinflated
to? - Answers-40 mmhg
What color tube top would be used to check coagulation? - Answers-Lt. Blue
What department in the hospital is responsible for sterile supplies? - Answers-Central
Supply
What is the document in the lab that describes the detailed steps to follow to collect
specimens? - Answers-Procedural Manual
What is the most common test for the lavender top tube? - Answers-CBC
Blood is carried away from the heart by: - Answers-arteries
A lipemic specimen, usually indicates the patient has not been doing what? - Answers-
Fasting
What gauge winged needle would you use when drawing from a hand, select one of the
following sizes: 15, 17 ,19 ,23 - Answers-23
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