Complete Textbook Of Phlebotomy
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781337464314
Author: Hoeltke
Publisher: Cengage
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Proper patient identification meansa. actively involving patients in their own identification.b. asking a second person to verify your ID procedure.c. checking the requisition against the patient’s room number.d. scanning patient ID bands with barcode readers only.
How are you going to respond to this situation?
Situation 3: A phlebotomist is responsible for collecting post-dose blood levels on a patient at 10:30 A.M. The phlebotomist has been delayed in collection, extracting the sample at 11:00 A.M. To cover up the fact that he was late for collection, the phlebotomist entered 10:30 A.M. as the time of collection. Present how this would impact the care of the patient.
What is a clinical specimen?
b. Laboratory results obtained in the clinical laboratory are only as good as the quality of the
clinical specimen collected for the laboratory analysis. Discuss this in the light of the
precautions to ensure in collecting clinical specimen as a nurse/midwife.
c. Explain any 2 methods of clinical specimen collection.
d. Explain any 2 laboratory procedures or test that are performed on clinical specimen for
laboratory investigations.
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