Reference no: EM133549254

Assignment:

List three reasons for vein palpation

State two errors in test results that can be caused by prolonged tourniquet application.

Sandra worked in a busy internal medicine clinic that specialized in infectious diseases and that required all patients to have blood drawn for detection of HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus at each visit. Sandra quickly called Mary back to the drawing station using her first name. Sandra immediately applied the tourniquet, selected a vein, assembled the equipment, labeled the tubes, cleansed the site, blew on the site to dry the alcohol, and performed the venipuncture.

• What is wrong with this situation?
• State three ways in which the patient, the blood collector, or sample in this scenario could be affected
• What legal ramifications may be possible?

Monica enters the diagnostic center for follow-up laboratory tests. After proper identification, she states that she had a mastectomy 3 months ago. He holds her left arm out for the blood collection.

• What question(s) should the blood collector ask Monica?
• If blood is drawn from the wrong arm, state two possible dangers to Monica
• If blood is drawn from the wrong arm, state two possible effects on the laboratory tests.