Safety and Compliance- A phlebotomy technician is preparing to perform a
venipuncture for a patient who has pneumonia. Besides gloves, which of the following
pieces of personal protective equipment should the technician wear?
A. Gown
B. N95 respirator
C. Face mask
D. Goggles
: C. The t...
Safety and Compliance- A phlebotomy technician is preparing to perform a
venipuncture for a patient who has pneumonia. Besides gloves, which of the following
pieces of personal protective equipment should the technician wear?
A. Gown
B. N95 respirator
C. Face mask
D. Goggles
🗸🗸🗸: C. The technician should wear a face mask when performing a venipuncture for
a patient who has a condition that requires droplet precautions, such as pneumonia.
Safety and Compliance- While collecting a blood specimen, a phlebotomy technician
notices the glass collection tube is cracked. Which of the following actions should the
technician take?
A. Wrap the tube in a pair of gloves and place it in a trash can.
B. Discard the tube in a biohazard bag.
C. Label the tube and send it to the laboratory.
D. Dispose of the tube in a sharps container.
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,🗸🗸🗸: D. The technician should discard broken glass in a sharps container to reduce
the risk of injury.
Safety and Compliance- A phlebotomy technician is performing a glucometer reading in
a young adult patient. The patient's parent is in the room and asks about the patient's
glucose level. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
A. Write down the results for the parent and the patient.
B. Ask the parent to leave the room and tell the patient.
C. Show the patient and parent the results in the patient and parent the results in the
patient's electronic health record. (EHR)
D. Ask the patient for permission to disclose the results with the parent present.
🗸🗸🗸: D. The technician should not give the results directly to the patient's parent.
Because the patient is an adult, the technician should ask the patient for permission to
disclose results.
Safety and Compliance- A phlebotomy technician is preparing to perform the third set of
blood draws for a glucose tolerance test (GTT). The patient starts to cry and refuses to
extend her arm for the draw. Which of the following statements should the technician
make?
A. "I will get in trouble if I don't perform the draw."
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,B. "I promise the draw won't hurt."
C. "May I come back in an hour to perform the draw?"
D. "May I please perform the draw?"
🗸🗸🗸: D. The GTT is a timed test that requires multiple blood draws performed at set
intervals to adequately determine values and ranges. The technician should ask the
patient for permission to perform the draw but should recognize the patient's right to
refuse the procedure.
Safety and Compliance- A phlebotomy technician is preparing to complete the glucose
monitor quality control record. Which of the following information should the technician
record in the quality control record?
A. Daily patient test results
B. Physician's NPI number
C. Date of battery change
D. Time that values were recorded
🗸🗸🗸: C. The technician should perform daily quality control checks and record the
results of these checks and any other maintenance in the quality control record.
Safety and Compliance- A phlebotomy technician observes a glucometer reading of 250
mg/dL. A second test is performed and returns a reading within the expected reference
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, range. Which of the following circumstances could have caused the first result to be
inaccurate?
A. Too much blood was used.
B. The first drop of blood was used.
C. Too little blood was used.
D. The test strips were left open.
🗸🗸🗸: A. If too much blood is applied to a test strip, it can cause false high glucose
level readings.
Safety and Compliance- Which of the following solutions should a phlebotomy
technician use to clean a cerebral spine specimen spill?
A. Chlorine bleach
B. Hydrogen peroxide
C. Povidone-iodine
D. Isopropyl alcohol
🗸🗸🗸: A. The technician should use a 1:10 solution of bleach and water to clean a
biohazard spill. Chlorine bleach is a disinfected and will kill all pathogens.
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