Competency Certification Quiz

An associate is hired as a phlebotomist and completes the initial training and competency certification. When will the next competency certification be needed?

• never

• 6 months

• 2 years

• 1 year

To demonstrate competency, a phlebotomist must verify the ability to collect blood samples from what age group?

• Verification is not necessary.

• young adults and geriatrics

• adults

• all age groups

The competency assessment check-off form must include what information?

• all the steps involved in completing the procedure

• only the name of the procedure

• the main steps in a procedure

• only a statement stating that the requirements were met

In most health care facilities, a phlebotomist would NOT be authorized to:

• centrifuge blood

• perform a bleeding time

• perform a capillary puncture

• start an IV

A competency program should verify the competency of a phlebotomist in the area(s) of:

• customer service

• safety

• computer use

• all of the above

Phlebotomists certified with ASCP after January 2004 must maintain their certification through the:

• competency continuation program

• certification maintenance program

• competency maintenance program

• none of the above

For a phlebotomist to be fully competent, the phlebotomist must be competent in:

• obese patients

• different age patients

• psychiatric patients

• all of the above

An associate is hired to do phlebotomy for the laboratory and is ready to work the first hour that he or she steps into the laboratory. What must be done first?

An elderly patient comes in to the laboratory to have his blood drawn. He mentions that each time he comes in he gets a bruise. He said that this never happened when he was younger. What has changed to make him bruise after a venipuncture?