***Before doing any procedure you must confirm patients full name and date of birth.
Materials (ingredients) for the tray
- gloves, butterfly needle, gauze, band-aid, tourniquet, alcohol wipes, tubes to collect the blood
Instructions
- wash your hands with soap, put the gloves on, check the patients arm or hand for the vein,
- place the tourniquet
- wipe the arm or hand with alcohol wipes (spot where the needle will be inserted)
- insert the needle 30 degree angle if it’s arm, 15 degree angle if it’s hand
- collect the blood into the tubes in order (color)
- remove the tourniquet on the last tube (do not leave it for more than two minutes)
- make a pressure with gauze to stop the bleeding and place the band-aid
Notes
- if patient faints from a blood draw then you have to ask them to get in supine position and have a conversation with patient (perhaps, people who holds their breath while drawing blood, they start feeling light-headed and end up fainting)
- have a blood pressure cuff to check patients blood pressure and cup of water as well
***Process by spinning the blood using the centrifuge machine and send them to the Lab with the right patients requisition form.
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