NHA CPCT Module 4: Phlebotomy

Apply the label immediately following the venipuncture.

A patient care technician is placing a label on a evacuated tube. Which of the following actions should the technician take?

Which of the following actions should a patient care technician take when processing a 24-hr urine specimen?

Note the time and date that the specimen collection began.

Which if the following actions should a patient care technician take to help prevent hemolysis?

Use a small-volume tube with a small-diameter butterfly needle.

A patient care technician is transporting a blood specimen to the laboratory. For which of the following reasons should the technician keep the specimen container in a vertical position with the stopper up during transport?

Prevents hemolysis

Which of the following indicates proper use of an evacuated tube system (ETS) for blood collections?

Used once per patient

A patient care technician missed the 0900 specimen collection for a patient's glucose tolerance test (GTT). Which of the following actions should the technician take next?

Perform the collections and record the time that they were collected.

A patient care technician is speaking with a client who is performing a 24-hr urine collection. The patient states, "I accidentally urinated into the toilet once today and did not collect the urine." Which of the following responses should the technician make?

"You should discard all of the previous specimens and begin the collection again."

A patient care technician is performing a blood collection with a winged infusion set through a dorsal hand vein. At which of the following angles should the technician insert the needle?

10 degrees

A patient care technician collects a specimen in an EDTA tube, but the specimen clots. This could have been caused by which of the following?

The collection tube was past its expiration date.

A patient care technician is performing a capillary blood specimen collection for an 11-month-old infant. Which if the following devices should the technician use?

Disposable lancet

A patient care technician is collecting a blood specimen from a patient who states, "I am feeling lightheaded." Which of the following actions should the technician take?

Protect the patient from falling.

A patient care technician is performing a quality control check on a glucometer. Which of the following actions should the technician take?

Check the calibration of the glucometer.

A patient care technician is preparing to perform a venipuncture for a patient who is NPO. The patient states, "I feel nauseous." Which of the following actions should the technician take?

Encourage the patient to take deep, slow breaths.

A patient care technician is collecting specimens for multiple tests via capillary puncture. Which of the following tubes should the technician collect first?

lavender

A patient care technician has collected a venipuncture specimen. Which of the following patient information should the technician include on the specimen label?

Identification number

A patient care technician has just collected specimen to determine a patient's blood ammonia level. Which of the following actions should the technician take?

Submerge the specimen in an ice slurry

A delay in transferring a specimen from a syringe to a vacuum tube might cause which of the following to occur?

hemolysis

A patient care technician is providing teaching to a patient about a sputum test. Which of the following statements should the technician make?

"We will collect the specimen in the morning."

A patient care technician is collecting specimens for a chemistry, coagulation, and blood culture study using a butterfly needle. Which of the following are in the proper order of draw?

Blood culture bottles, light blue, red, gray

A patient care technician is preparing to perform a drug test for a patient. Which of the following actions should the technician plan to take?

Include the location where the test was performed on the chain of custody form.