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When can a phlebotomy technician puncture the patient’s skin for either venipuncture or capillary puncture?

An endocrinologist has ordered a thyroid panel and fasting blood glucose tests for a patient.  Which of these choices represents a possible tube choice?

Hemolysis of a capillary specimen is most likely to have resulted from 

A blade-style lancet should be held at a _______ angle to a patient’s fingerprint whorls when performing capillary collection. 

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A patient indicates that phlebotomy technicians have always had the best luck drawing blood from his right arm, but no suitable site can be found in the right arm after visual inspection and palpation.  What should the phlebotomy technician do next?

If a patient has orders for therapeutic drug monitoring and must have blood drawn at trough medication levels, when should her blood be drawn?

The stage of anesthesia that begins with loss of consciousness is

When performing a draw on an inpatient with a recent mastectomy, the phlebotomy technician finds that an IV is running in the arm on the non-mastectomy side.  Which site should the phlebotomy technician use?

When a blood culture is ordered along with other tests, which tube is filled first?