Venipuncture

Venipuncture or phlebotomy is the term used when blood is going to get drawn from a vein. There are many people who have to get their blood drawn for health concerns. It can show how well the kidneys, heart, lungs and other organs work. The people who draw your blood are called a phlebotomist. A phlebotomist is a trained individual, usually working in a doctor’s office, hospital or medical care unit. A phlebotomist is trained to draw blood from another individual via vein in the arm (aka venipuncture) pricks in the finger and in babies, pricks in the heel of the foot. Venipuncture can also tell a doctor if you have HIV or any diseases such as cancer or lupus. To locate a vein, you should feel around the arm and not just look for a vein. You…

Kala Farmer English 1101 Online Levi Wright, Instructor Proper Instructions of a Blood Draw It’s very important to follow the proper steps in a blood draw for both the safety of the patient and medical personnel. First, the blood draw or venipuncture is the puncture of a vein with a needle to collect a blood sample. The proper steps of a blood draw are as follows. Step One Identifying the patient by name and date of birth is one of the most important steps. As a medical professional you want…

(Attention getter) Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood. That’s a lot of blood. Blood is scary, and blood always seems to make situations worse than it really is. Trust me, it happened to me personally. But if you think about it, blood is everything. There are many things about phlebotomy, yet not a lot of people know about them. (Thesis) Coming from a family with a bit of history in the medical fields, this topic easily made me curious and I wanted to know more. (Preview…

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to be 3% and under. The information I provided was from a presentation by Peter H. Gilligan called “How to get your blood culture contamination rates to <1% is an outstanding goal to reach and is definitely possible with the right staff and training. A culture is considered to likely be contaminated when a single positive culture from multiple sets is positive. Organisms that are considered to be contaminants are coagulase negative staphylococcus, Corynebacterium (except C. jeikium), Bacillus…

Venipuncture procedure Vennisa Arredondo Brookline College June 13, 2017 Venipuncture procedure Today I will be discussing how I would take the proper steps in a simple venipuncture. I will be discussing the supplies I will be using. And discuss proper introduction. First before anything I will go over the patients chart to check if there have ever been any issues with the patient during any blood draws and I will also make sure to take the patients age and if necessary if the patient has…

Application Paper 1 What is medical negligence definition is that a healthcare provider’s actions or inaction deviated from the accepted standard of care. In law, the failure to do something that a reasonable person of ordinary prudence would do in a certain situation or the doing of something that such a person would not do. Negligence may provide the basis for a lawsuit when there is a legal duty, as the duty of a physician or nurse to provide reasonable care to patients and when the…

Imagine lying on a hospital bed, deathly sick, waiting for blood test results. Months have passed since the sickness set in and it has been getting worse and worse as time has passed. Being unaware as to what is wrong, there was no other choice but to go to the hospital and get blood drawn. After enduring countless different procedures and tests, none of them coming back with any results that are unsatisfactory, but being well aware that there is something seriously wrong, the decision to visit…

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According to (Greenstone, 2010), the practice of bloodletting was a preferred method adopted by doctors and barber-surgeons for several centuries, and is currently, probably surprisingly, still used in a few particular symptoms. The success of bloodletting in treating ailments like pneumonia was persuasively countered in the mid-nineteenth century, but medical conservatism made sure that bloodletting continued well into the 20th century. Currently, phlebotomy therapy is centrally employed in…