Quiz 5 Phlebotomy

Front 1

Glycolysis occurring in a tube of unseparated blood will cause:

Back 1

A decrease in serum glucose concentration

Front 2

What does NPO mean?

Back 2

Nothing by mouth

Front 3

The glucose tolerance test

Back 3

Is performed to aid in the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus

Front 4

You receive an order to draw a STAT CBC. Your responsibility is to:

Back 4

Draw blood in a lavender tube and send it to the lab promptly

Front 5

What is the major drawback of a 24 hour urine collection?

Back 5

Patient cooperation is essential and is often hard to get

Front 6

A test performed after a meal is called:

Back 6

Postprandial

Front 7

The process for preparing the puncture site for this procedure is similar to that for an arterial puncture. What is the procedure?

Back 7

Blood culture collection

Front 8

Which test is NOT usually done to detect clotting problems:

Back 8

Glucose

Front 9

The gray top tube is usually drawn for which test?

Back 9

Glucose

Front 10

Which of the following statements concerning bleeding time test is true?

Back 10

you should only touch the drop of blood with the filter paper. A stopwatch should be started at the same time that the puncture is made. It is used to assess platelet function.

(All of the above)

Front 11

The glucose tolerance test includes:

Back 11

Administration of glucose, multiple timed blood draws. (Both A and B)

Front 12

What is the purpose of the bleeding time test?

Back 12

To assess platelet function

Front 13

Hypoglycemia is a condition of?

Back 13

Low blood sugar

Front 14

What is the best specimen for urine collection?

Back 14

A clean catch midstream urine sample.

Front 15

The patients fasting glucose can be elevated if?

Back 15

The patient eat before having blood drawn

Front 16

Disturbing the platelet plug on a patient while performing a bleeding time will cause the results to be?

Back 16

Falsely elevated

Front 17

A properly collected 24 hour urine specimen:

Back 17

May contain a chemical preservative

Front 18

The most common cause of blood culture contamination is:

Back 18

Improper skin preparation

Front 19

In which test should alcohol never be used to cleanse the venipuncture site?

Back 19

Alcohol

Front 20

Glucose tolerance test and the therapeutic drug monitoring test have which of the following collection requirements in common?

Back 20

Timed specimen

Front 21

When drawing blood to monitor the therapy of a specific antibiotic, the peak level is drawn one hour after administering the antibiotic. The term used to refer to the antibiotic level drawn right before the antibiotic is given is called the:

Back 21

Trough level

Front 22

The results of a test can change because of:

Back 22

Exercise, stress, posture

(All of the above)

Front 23

Citrate tubes must be within ____ percent of full to give accurate results.

Back 23

10

Front 24

Circadian changes are best described as:

Back 24

Cyclical changes throughout the day

Front 25

Protecting the specimen from light is best done by?

Back 25

Placing the specimen in an amber colored tube, wrapping aluminum foil around the specimen. (Both A and C)

Front 26

Specimens may be rejected for testing if:

Back 26

The specimen was drawn above a running IV, the specimen was not labeled with the patient's complete name, an anticoagulated specimen had a clot. (All of the above)

Front 27

Which occurrence is NOT a cause of specimen rejection?

Back 27

Clot in a red

Front 28

The most critical step in Phlebotomy is:

Back 28

Patient identification!

Front 29

Which statement best summarizes the quality of blood specimens?

Back 29

Specimens of low-quality can produce an inaccurate and potentially dangerous results.

Front 30

If the Tourniquet is applied for longer than one minute, which of the following analytes will be elevated and will continue to increase the longer the tourniquet is applied?

Back 30

Potassium

Front 31

Pre-analytical errors are variables that occur to a specimen before the specimen is tested. The type of error caused by a patient would be:

Back 31

The patient eating a candy bar when the test is supposed to be fasting

Front 32

Pre-analytical errors are variables that occur to a specimen before the specimen is tested. The type of error caused by the phlebotomist would be:

Back 32

The phlebotomist putting the incorrect name on the tube of blood.

Front 33

Pre-analytical errors are variables that occur to a specimen before the specimen is tested. A transportation error would be:

Back 33

The tube breaking in transport

Front 34

Which one is not a pre-analytical error?

Back 34

The technologist running the wrong test on a sample