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Activity 7-1: Blood Collection Tubes
Complete the following table during class discussion: Call on students to provide the additives and common tests performed on these tubes. Complete the chart as a group.
Tube Stopper Color
Anticoagulant/Additive
Common Tests
Department
Yellow
Gold/Red
Light blue
Red
Green
Lavender
Gray
Pink
Activity 7-2: Phlebotomy Basket
List the items that should be in a Phlebotomy tray or station for all types of blood collections:
Activity 7-3: Requisition Form Review
1. Review the requisition form for Helen Potter below. What information needs to be included?
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2. Review the requisition form for Richard Sauder below. What information needs to be included?
3. Review the requisition form for Roberta Myers below. What information needs to be included?
4. Review the requisition form for Brian Torres below. What information needs to be included?
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Activity 7-4: Label the Needle
Using the image below, label the parts of the needle.
Activity 7-5: Crossword Puzzle
Complete the fun crossword puzzle about venipuncture equipment. Print out the following puzzle, and hand it out to students as a homework assignment.
Across
Down
1. Edge of the needle
4. Used to clean the skin
5. For safe needle disposal
7. Used to hold pressure after venipuncture
8. Lavender top tube
1. Put on skin after a venipuncture
2. Protect the phlebotomist
3. Used to help find a vein
5. Serum separator tubes
6. Width of the needle
Activity 7-6: Venipuncture Equipment Exercise
State or assemble (if requested) the appropriate equipment for the situations described in this exercise. Include the number and stopper color of evacuated tubes, needle size, syringe size, or winged blood collection set, if appropriate. Instructors may specify the inclusion of other supplies.
1. Collection of a CBC from a 35-year-old woman.
7. Assemble the equipment to collect a type and crossmatch on a 50-year-old man.
2. Collection of a CBC from a 3-year-old boy.
8. Assemble the equipment to collect a cardiac risk profile and ESR from a patient with fragile
3. Collection of a CBC and electrolytes from a
veins.
40-year-old man.
4. Collection of an amylase from the hand of a
9. Assemble the equipment to collect a lead level from a 2-year-old patient.
patient who is taking anticoagulants.
5. Collection of a PT from an elderly patient.
10. Assemble the tubes in the order they would be drawn for a CBC, APTT, and a glucose using an evacuated tube systems.
6. Collection of a chemistry profile from a
patient with a latex allergy.
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Activity 7-7: Chapter 7 Review Questions
Name Due Date 1. State a purpose for which a phlebotomist would use each of the following:
A. 16-gauge needle: B. 21-gauge needle: C. 23-gauge needle: 2. Using a 25-gauge needle with a 10-mL evacuated tube to perform phlebotomy may cause
.
3. List the three parts common to all needles.
A. B. C. 4. How does the anticoagulant in a green stopper tube work?
5. Name three anticoagulants that prevent clotting by binding calcium and the color-coded stopper associated with them.
Anticoagulant
Color-Coded Stopper
A. B. C. 6. What is the purpose of sodium fluoride in a gray stopper tube?
7. Why is EDTA the anticoagulant of choice for the CBC?
8. The stopper color of the tube that must always be filled to capacity is .
9. What is the purpose of tapping an evacuated tube containing dried anticoagulant before using it?
10. For the tests below, (a)provide the tube color, and (b) list the order of draw for the tubes.
Order of Draw
Tube Color
A. CBC: B. Blood culture: C. Plasma glucose: D. Cholesterol: E. Coagulation studies: 11. Under what circumstances should the amount of anticoagulant in a light blue stopper tube be decreased? 12. Why are royal blue stopper tubes used for collecting trace metal analyses?
13. List an advantage and a disadvantage of syringe use.
A. B. 14. When are winged blood collection sets used in phlebotomy?
15. Syringes are graduated in .
16. List two precautions a phlebotomist would take when collecting a blood specimen from a patient with a latex allergy.
A. B. 17. List two antiseptics used in venipuncture, and state a situation when each is used.
Antiseptic
Used For
A. B.
18. Fill in the blanks in the following chart:
Tube Color
Anticoagulant/Additiv
e
Test
Department
Red
None
RPR
Serology
EDTA
Prothrombin
Pink
Ammonia
Sodium fluoride
Tan
19. List the three types of gloves. Which is most commonly used for routine venipunctures?
A. B. C. 20. The most common type of tourniquet used is the flat nonlatex strip. What is the reason for using a tourniquet when performing a venipuncture?
21. List the three commonly used substances to clean a patient’s arm prior to performing a venipuncture. Which one is used most often?
A. B. C. 22. What is the bevel of the needle? What is the gauge of a needle? Which is smaller—an 18-gauge needle or a 23-gauge needle?
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Activity 7-9: Chapter 7 Quiz
Name Due Date 1. The use of mobile phlebotomy workstations with swivel caster wheels offer all of the following advantages over the traditional phlebotomy tray except
:
A. the tray will not fall from the patient’s bed.
B. the phlebotomist must use the elevator to travel between floors in a hospital.
C. ample space is available for supplies, sharps containers, and paperwork.
D. space is easily available for wireless order entry devices.
2. The needle holder that is part of the evacuated tube collection system is:
A. disposed of in the general trash after removing the collection needle.
B. disposed of as a unit with the collection needle into a red bag.
C. disposed of as a unit with the collection needle into a sharps container.
D. made of a grade of plastic that does not require disposal in a sharps container.
3. Many newer instruments in the laboratory are able to withdraw patient samples directly through the stopper of an unopened blood collection tube. The instrument identifies the correct tube by means of:
A. the color of the stopper.
B. the diameter of the tube.
C. a bar-coded label on the tube.
D. the patient’s last name on the tube.
4. The part of a syringe that is withdrawn after the vein is entered is the:
A. barrel.
B. hub.
C. shield.
D. plunger.
5. A winged blood collection set would be primarily used to collect blood from the:
A. heel.
B. antecubital vein.
C. finger.
D. hand.
6. The plastic tubing on a winged blood collection set can be attached to all of the following except
:
A. evacuated tube holder.
B. syringe.
C. serum separator tube (SST) tube.
D. IV set.
7. An example of an antiglycolytic agent is:
A. potassium oxalate.
B. ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid.
C. sodium fluoride.
D. ammonium heparin.
8. The presence of a clot is acceptable in:
A. gold stopper tubes.
B. lavender stopper tubes.
C. green stopper tubes.
D. light blue stopper tubes.
9. The recommended order of draw for a CBC, prothrombin time (PT), and cholesterol is:
A. lavender, light blue, and red.
B. light blue, lavender, and gold.
C. gold, lavender, and light blue.
D. light blue, red, and lavender.
10. Which of the following tubes contains an anticoagulant that does not bind calcium?
A. Light blue
B. Green
C. Gray
D. Lavender