Phlebotomy Technician Certification
Patient identification and preparation: practice questions
Our Phlebotomy bank has 7 questions on this topic. Here are 3 of them with answers; the full mock exam draws from every topic, like the real one.
Question 1
What should you do if an inpatient's ID band is missing?
- Use the bed card
- Don't draw until the nurse puts a correct ID band on the patient
- Draw the specimen and label it using the patient's name from the chart instead
- Ask the patient's visitor
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B. Don't draw until the nurse puts a correct ID band on the patient — No ID band, no draw.
Question 2
A patient refuses to have blood drawn. What should you do?
- Restrain the patient
- Respect the refusal, explain the importance, and notify the nurse or provider
- Draw anyway
- Ask the family to consent instead
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B. Respect the refusal, explain the importance, and notify the nurse or provider — Patients have the right to refuse.
Question 3
What is the patient's 'basal state'?
- The state after exercise
- The state during sleep only, measured right after the patient wakes up
- The body's condition after about 12 hours of fasting and rest
- The state after eating
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C. The body's condition after about 12 hours of fasting and rest — Basal state specimens reduce variation.