NHA Routine Venipuncture

If you are working as a Phlebotomist in an outpatient facility, you will most likely stay in your station and work. Patients will come to you.

If you are working as a Phlebotomist in an inpatient setting, you will traveling to the patients.

You are allowed to reuse a tourniquet on different patients.

The 21 gauge needle is the most common size needle used for a routine venipuncture

You are allowed to reuse a needle if it is the same patient

Needles are sterile and must be disposed of after each use

You may use a 21 or 23 gauge needle for routine venipuncture

In order to use a blood pressure cuff as a tourniquet, you must further your education and receive a certificate

ETS stands for evacuated tube system and lets you send lab supplies and tests to different parts of the hospital without having to physically walk there

A double-sided needle only has 1 needle in it