When a patient’s veins are difficult to access, how many attempts at venipuncture should a phlebotomy technician make before seeking help from other qualified personnel?

Most collection tubes should be centrifuged within ________ of collection.

Which of these patient reactions should be documented, but is not a cause for discontinuing a draw or likely to affect analytes?

After assembling the ETS and double-checking that he has the correct tubes gathered for a venipuncture draw, a phlebotomy technician realizes that he forgot to remove the tourniquet after site selection.  He knows that is has been in place for more than one minute.  If he continues with the draw, what is one possible consequence?

When passing another phlebotomy technician’s drawing station a PBT overhears him telling the patient that if she does not extend her arm, he will have to extend it for her and strap it down for the draw.  What is the passing PBT’s best course of action?

A patient with a DNR order in place becomes unresponsive during the course of a blood draw. The phlebotomy technician should

Disposable tourniquets are intended to be used

Which of the following will help a phlebotomy technician avoid having a patient’s vein roll away when the needle is inserted?

Blood exits the heart through the body’s largest artery, the _________.

Electrolytes and complete blood count are ordered for a patient who must have blood collected by capillary puncture.  The correct tubes to use, in the correct order, would be