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A patient care technician should recognize that which of the following test specimens should be protected from light?
Cryofiberinogen
Lactic Acid
Ammonia
Bilirubin
A patient care technician assisted a nurse with removing staples from a patient's surgical wound. Which of the followingactions should the technician take to sterilize the instruments
Place the instruments in an autoclave and steam them under pressure or moist heat
Soak the instruments in an antiseptic solution for 30 minutes before rinsing them with water
Discard the instruments by placing them in the sharps container
Scrub the instruments with a bactericidal solution and let air dry
Which of the following is indicated by an ST segment?
The heart at rest.
Time interval between atrial contractionand ventricular contraction.
Atrial Contraction
Time interval between ventricular contraction and the beginning of ventricular recovery
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who is at risk for skin breakdown. Which of the following actions should the technician take to prevent this breakdown
Change the linens every 8 hours
Inspect the skin upon admission and discharge
Apply petroleum jelly to the affected area
Reposition the patient every 2 hours
A patient care technician should recognize that hematuria is associated with which of the following conditions
Oliguria
Polyuria
Cystitis
Pregnancy
A patient care technician is caring for a terminally ill patient. The technician walks into the patients room and finds the patient and their family members crying. Which of the following actions should the technician take
Ask the family to leave the room
Ask the patient what is wrong.
Provide privacy
Redirect the family;s attention
A patient care technician receives duplicate orders for a blood draw on a patient. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Draw both orders and discard the incorrect specimen
Verify the orders with the nurse
Leave the order for the next shift to verify
Confirm with the patient what lab work the physician ordered
Which of the following is the primary function of a pulse oximeter?
Obtain a patient’s blood glucose level
Obtain a patient’s blood pressure
Measure a patient’s heart rate and oxygen saturation
Measure a patient's respiratory rate and give oxygen
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who is receiving supplemental oxygen via nasal cannula. Which of the following precautions should the technician take?
Apply petroleum jelly to the patient’s nasal area
Increase the oxygen if the patient becomes difficult to rouse
Elevate the head of the patient’s bed
Observe the condition of the patient’s nares once every 4 hr.
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who is sweating. The technician should use which of the following terms to communicate this finding?
Dysphasia
Dyspnea
Diaphoresis
Dysuria
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who had a stroke and is experiencing weakness in their dominant hand. The patient reports difficulty using utensils when eating. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Request assistive devices for the patient
Feed the patient after caring for other patients
Reassure the patient that they will get better
Ask the family to bring the utensils the patient used before the stroke
A patient tells a patient care technician " I dont likethe staff that works overnight here because I ring the call bell to get up to go to the bathroom, and nobody cares. Please don't tell anyone because I don't want them to ignore me more. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Come in early and talk to the overnight staff about the patients concerns
Respect the patients wishes and not tell anyone.
Ask another technician how they would handle the situation
Inform the patient that it is the technicians duty to report their concerns to the supervisor
A patient care technician witnesses a chemical spilll in a patients room. There is a strong smell of chemicals and visible smoke. Which of the following actions should the technician take first?
Move the patient out of the room
Shout for help
Report the chemical spill to environmental services
Pull the fire alarm
Which of the following causes hemolysis
Leaving the touraquet on for 30-60 seconds
Vigourously inverting the collection tubes
Allowing the blood to clot before centrifuging
Using too large of a needle with respect to vein size
Which of the following patients require protective, or reverse isolation?
a 60 year old patient that has meningitis
A 10 year old patient who is receiving chemotherapy
A 20 year old patient who has tuberculosis
A 43 year old patient who has pneumonia
Which of the following can a patient care technician do to minimize somatic tremor?
Check for loose electrodes
Wipe off lotion and sweat
Cover the patient with a blanket
Unplug surronding machines
The following artifact is displaced on the EKG. To resolve this , the patient care technician should do which of the following?
Restart the EKG machine to recalibrate
Reposition the patient to a lateraal side lying position
Try another electrical outlet
inspect electrodes and wires for secure connection
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who is deaf and nonverbal. The patient appears to be in pain. The technician should evaluate the patients pain using which of the following methods?
Obtaining a blood pressure reading
Using the pain scale of 1 to 10
Using the Face's scale of 1 to 5
Obtaining a pulse reading
A patient care technician is preparing to empty a patients indwelling urinary cather bag. Which of the following is the correct procedure?
Empty the contents into the graduate and record the findings.
After emptying the bag, send the specimen for a culture and sensitivity
Empty the contents of the bag into the bedside commode
After emptying the bag, remove the catheter
The tracing below is an example of which of the following?
Premature Atrial Contraction
Ventricular Fibrillation
Ventricular Tachycardia
Premature Ventricular Contraction
A patient care technician has a coworker who takes a long lunch break and then aks for help catching on their work when they return. Whichof the following actions should the technician take
report the coworkers behavior to the human resources department
Discuss the situation with the coworker in private.
Notify their supervisor and request immediate intervention
Talk about the situation with other technicians on the unit.
A patient care technician is entering the room of a patient who has influenza. Which of the following precautions should the tecnician use?
Neutropeninic
Droplet
Contact
Airborne
Which of the following is the regular paper speed of an EKG machine
15mm/second
50 mm/second
25 mm/second
30 mm/ssecond
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has an order for restraints. How often should the restraints be released?
Once a day
Every 1 hour
Every 2 hours
Twice a day
A patient care technician is reinforcing teaching with a patient who has an order for a EKG. Which of the following statements by the patient indicates an understanding of the procedure?
" I should feel no pain or discomfort from this procedure."
"It's okay for me to talk and ask questions during the procedure"
"This procedure should last about 30 minutes"
"I should apply lotion to my skin before the procedure?
A patient care technician is performing a venipuncture when a droplet of a patients blood splatters onto a single use tourniquet. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Rinse the blod off the tourniquet before using it on the next patient
Deposit the tourniquet into a sharp container.
Discard the tourniquet into a biohazard container.
Allow the touriquett to dry and contine using it for the next venipuncture.
Which of the following patients might require adaptive devices to perform ADL's?
A patient who has acute renal failure
A patient who has diabetes mellitius
A patient who has a cerebrovascular accident
A patient who had acute pneumonia
A patient care technician is assisting with ADL's for a patient who has right sided weakness following a stroke. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Assist the patient with dressing their right side?
Encourage the patient to brush their teeth with their right hand.
Place the bedside commode on the patients right side.
Support the patient on their left side while ambulating
A patient care technician is preparing to perform a phlebotomy procedure on a patient. Upon entering the room which of the following actions should the technician take first?
Ask the patient if they need an interprtor
introduce himself and explain his critical role
Gather his equipment and wash his hands
Obtain consent from the patient to perform the procedure.
A patient care technician is preparing to insert an indwelling urinary catheter, Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Use clean splinter forceps to open the package
Use sterile splinter forceps to open the package.
Wear sterile gloves while opening the package.
Open the package and apply the sterile gloves
Which of the following should a patient care technician recognize about a stress test?
The test produces electrical tracings of the heart’s activity at a central monitoring station
The test transfers tracings of the heart’s activity via telephone to the provider.
The test determines whether the heart receives adequate blood flow during exercise.
The test uses a small mobile device that monitors the heart for day at a time.
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has aphasia. Which of the following pain scales should the technician expect the nurse to use to assess the patient’s pain level?
Numeric
Verbal descriptive
Visual analog
FACES
A patient care technician is removing a patient’s indwelling urinary catheter, The technician should recognize that all the water should be removed from the catheter’s balloon, because it can cause which of the following?
Injury to the urethra
Injury to the kidneys
Nocturia
Polyuria
Which of the following is an example of a prosthetic device?
Insoles
Dentures
Walker
Back brace
A patient goes into ventricular fibrillation during an EKG. Which of the following actions should the patient care technician take?
Apply an oxygen mask.
Identify the patient
Alert the emergency response system
Restart the LKG machine
A patient care technician is assisting with a task that requires sterile technique. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Prepare the sterile field 30 min prior to the procedure.
Use clean forceps to add equipment to the sterile field
Maintain a 1-inch border around the sterile field
Place solution containers directly onto the sterile field
A patient care technician assists a patient to shave using a safety razor, In which of the following should the technician dispose of the razor?
The Soiled utility room
The trash can
A biohazard bag
A sharps container
A patient care technician has an order to draw a complete blood count and blood cultures from a patient. Which color tube should the technician collect first?
Lavender
Yellow
Green
Light Blue
Which of the following manifestations is the first sign of skin breakdown in a patient?
Visible lines
Discoloration
Blisters
Craser
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who requires the application of antiembolic stockings each morning, which of the following should the technician recognize as the reason for this procedure?
Antiembolic stocking are applied to keep blood circulating and reduce the risk of deep vein thrombosis
Antiembolic stocking are used to prevent air embolisms from circulating to the legs
Antiembolic stockings are used to dislodge existing embolisms and massage to legs
Antiembolic stockings are applied to the patient’s leg to protect the skin on the legs from injury that may cause bleeding.
A patient care technician is caring for a patient and is to obtain a stool specimen for parasites. Which of the following actions should the technician take after obtaining the specimen?
Label the specimen and send a note to the labor story to come to receive it.
Place the specimen in a refrigerator immediately after obtaining it.
Leave the specimen in the general bin for the laboratory pickup.
Take the specimen to the laboratory immediately after obtaining it.
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has an ostomy. The technician should identify that which of the following can cause skin Impairment?
A listed skin barrier around the stoma.
Cleaning with soap and water
Applying a water
Liquid stool under appliance
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has an abdominal incision dressing that is saturated with thick, green drainage. The technician should identify that this is which of the following types of drainage?
Purulent
Pustule
Sanguineous
Serous
Which of the following actions is within a patient care technician’s scope of practice when providing wound care?
Assessing skin integrity
Setting up the sterile field
Irrigating the wound
Debriding the wound
A patient care technician is measuring a patient’s Intake and output. Which of the following should the technician identify as insensible fluid loss?
Perspiration
Diarrhea
Wound drainage
Urine
When collecting laboratory specimens, which of the following protocols requires a patient care technician to be involved in a process that involves witnesses, signatures and detailed tracking?
Genetic testing
CUA
Waved testing
Chain of custody
Which of the following artifacts is indicated by the tracing below?
Electrical interference
Wandering Baseline
Loose electrodes
Reversed leads
The duties of a patient care technician include
Evaluating stained blood smears.
Greeting and instructing patients.
Establishing test protocols for specimen analysis.
Calibrating instruments within the laboratory.
Before putting a blood pressure cuff on a patient’s left arm, a patient care technician notices a shunt under the patient’s skin. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Before applying the cuff, report this finding to the nurse.
Apply the blood pressure cuff 3 inches above the shunt.
Put the blood pressure cuff on the right arm.
Massage the patient’s left arm before applying the cuff.
A patient care technician is caring for the patient who has methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Which of the following precautions should the technician maintain?
Droplet
Contact
Airborne
Standard
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has undergone a total abdominal hysterectomy. The patient has just returned to her hospital room from the recovery room. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Teach the patient to change her dressing every 2 hr.
Ask the patient to let staff know when she is ready for her first size bath.
Have the patient use a pillow which doing coughing and deep breathing exercises
Check the patient’s vital sign and pulse oximetry once per shift.
When caring for a patient who has a ostomy, Which of the following observation should a patient care technician report to the nurse?
The stoma is a pale in color
There is liquid stool in the ostomy bag.
The water is attached to the pouch.
There is stool present on the stoma.
Prior to performing a capillary (dermal) puncture, the CPCT should
Select the lancet size
Use chlorhexidine to completely cleanse the area.
Apply ice to numb the area
Use betadine to completely cleanse the area.
A patient who has dementia consistently wanders away from their room in a long-term care facility, which of the following actions should the patient care technician take?
Provide a secure environment for the patient to wander.
Ask the patient if they remember their room number
Instruct the patient to stay at the nurse’s station
Make sure the television is on in the patient’s room.
Which of the following describes the purpose of using sequential compression devices after surgery?
Expanding the patient’s lung capacity
Restoring the patient’s ability walk safely
Preventing the formation of blood clots
Reducing the need for incentive spirometry
A patient care technician should notify the nurse to conduct a safety reminder device assessment for which of the following patients?
A patient who is verbality abusive to staff.
A patient whose level of consciousness decreases
A patient who requires increased vital sign monitoring
A patient who attempts to remove the IV line.
Following the blood draw, a patient begins to twitch and shake, and her eyes roll back into her head. The patient care technician should
Place an object into the patient’s mouth to protect against injury.
Observe the patient and help protect against injury.
Begin CPR and help protect against injury.
Restrain the patient and help protect against injury.
A patient care technician is preparing to use a mechanical scale to weigh an adult patient who uses a walker. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Place the walker over the scale for the patient to use as support.
Give the patient a cane to use as support on the scale.
Position a chair by the scale for the patient to use as support.
Instruct the patient to hold on to the base of the weight stand.
A patient care technician is performing passive range-of-motion exercises of patient. Which of the following actions is an example of adduction and abduction?
Bends the patient’s arm at the elbow and back.
Rotates the patient’s hip away from the body and back
Flexes the patient’s wrist up and down
Hyperextends the patient’s foot forward and back.
Which of the following tasks is within the scope of practice of a patient care technician?
Supervising a newly certified patient care technician
Checking a patient’s fasting blood sugar
Adjusting a patient’s oxygen flow care
Receiving a telephone prescription from a provider
The tracing below is an example of which of the following?
Sinus bradycardia
Atrial arrhythmia
Accelerated junctional rhythm
Sinus arrest
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has dentures. The technician should take which of the following actions?
Placing the dentures in a diluted bleach solution
Brushing the dentures prior to removal
Placing the dentures in hot water
Removing the upper dentures first
Which of the following patient identifiers can be used to correctly identify a patient in accordance with the joint commission’s national patient safety goals?
Room number
First and last initial
Assigned ID number
Physical location
A patient care technician is preparing to perform venipuncture for a 9-year-old child. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Discuss the potential discomfort of the procedure wish the child
Place restraints on the child during the procedure
Offer the child a reward if they do not cry.
Tell the child’s parent that they must wait outside during the procedure
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who is on a fluid restriction of 500 mL per 8-hr shift. The dietary department is providing 600 mL, of fluid per day. Which of the following is the amount of additional fluids that the technician should allow the patient to have each day?
900 mL
300 mL
200 mL
100 mL
Which of the following motions should a patient care technician use when providing passive range of motion exercises for a patient’s ankle?
Dorsiflexion
Inversion
Abduction
External rotation
During a venipuncture, the needle is in the vein and blood flow is established. When the second tube is attached, blood flow stops. Which of the following actions should the patient care technician take?
Rotate the bevel of the needle
Withdraw the needle completely
Increase tourniquet pressure
Activate a new evacuated tube
A patient care technician observer swelling at the IV site of a patient who has a peripheral IV. Which of the following conditions should the technician identify as a potential cause of the swelling?
Tight transdermal dressing
Infiltration of the solution
Kink in the tubing
Medication reaction
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has a diagnosis of congestive heart failure. The patient has a fluid and sodium restriction. Which could indicate which of the following
Bradycardia
Edema
Hyperglycemia
Oliguria
Which of the following statements describes the use of disinfectants?
Disinfectants are used for invasive equipment.
Disinfectants can be used to clean inanimate objects.
Disinfectants are used in the autoclave
Disinfectants can be used to sterilize equipment.
A patient care technician is preparing to transfer a client from a bed to wheelchair, Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Support the patient under the armpits.
Move the patient to the side to the bed.
Instruct the patient to wrap her arms around the technician neck
Have the patient grasp the gait belt.
Which of the following should a patient care technician reference to find a patient’s recorded intake and output?
Physician’s progress notes
Medical History
Flow or graphic sheet
Nursing History
Which of the following tests is a noninvasive method used to monitor the percentages of hemoglobin carrying oxygen throughout the tissues ?
Pulse Oximetry
Hemoglobin and hematocrit
Capillary blood analysis
Arterial Blood gas
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has received a dose of pain medication. The patient tells the technician that she is still feeling pain. Which of the following responses by the technician is therapeutic?
“Is it ostealgia or myalgia?”
I’ll ask the doctor to give you stronger medication
How would you describe the pain?
Can you wait for a few more minutes?
Which of the following information is included on a patient’s identification band?
Age
Weight
Address
Diagnosis
At which of the following times does rigor mortis occur in a patient who has died
When the patient is taken to the morgue
2 to 4 hour after death
Prior to postmortem care
48 hr after death
A patient care technician is performing an EKG in the emergency department and notices a consistent spike prior to the P wave. The technician should recognize this an indication of which of the following?
The patient is having an atrioventricular delay.
The atriums are reploarizing
The inherent rate is picking up the patients
The pacemaker is delivering an atrial pacing
A patient care technician is transferring a patient from a stretcher to a bed. Which of the following actions by the technicnician demonstration proper body mechnaics
Having a wide base of support
Having a narrow base of support
Standing with knees locked
Standing with feet together
After completing patient rounding , which of the following actions shoulda patient care technician take to ensure the patients's safety?
Leave the call light within the patients reach.
Raise all four side rails on the patients bed.
Place the patient on fall risks precautions
Position the patient's bed at waist height?
A patient care technician is setting up a sterile field for a patient who needs a dressing change. Which of the following actions by the technician is contraindicated?
Using the overbed table as a work surface to set up the sterile field
Utilizing the drop technique when adding items to the sterile field
Picking up the cuff of the right hand glove using the left hand
Placing the handle of the Kelly forceprs beyond the edge of the sterile field.
Which of the following actions should a patient care technician take when setting up a sterile field
Lay the sterile drape
Open the sterile packagetoward the body
Don sterile gloves before setting up the field
Consider a 1 inch binder around the edge of the field nonsterile
Which of the following information does OSHA require to be included on a Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
First Aid measures
Environmental Regulations
Disposal of contaminated packages
Ecological Information
A patient Care technician is caring for a patient who is on fall precautions. The patient is acting confused, crawling out of bed and roaming around his room. Which of the following activities should the technician take.?
Notify the Charge Nurse
Call in a family member to sit with the patient
Encourage the patient to call for help before getting out of the bed
Apply a wrist restraint
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who is in stable condition. The patient’s coworker approaches the technician and asks about the patient’s test results. Which of the following responses by the technician is appropriate?
He should be discharged by the end of the week.
You can ask the patient’s family
I will go get the doctor for you
He’s fine. Don’t worry.
A patient care technician is assigned to a patient who has scabies. Which of the following precautions should the technician follow when providing care to this patient?
Contact
Droplet
Neutropenic
Air borne
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who is ready for discharge. Which of the following is the technician’s responsibility during the discharge process?
Review the patient’s medication reconciliation
Escort the patient to the exit area in a wheelchair.
Obtain patient signature on discharge paperwork
Administer final doses of patient’s medication prior to discharge.
A patient care technician is performing patient rounding when a patient reports they are having difficulty sleeping. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Offer the patient a sedative
Suggest that the patient engage in heavy exercise 1 hr before bedtime.
Suggest that the patient take naps during the day.
Offer the patient a back rub.
Which of the following actions should a patient care technician take when obtaining a 24-hr urine collection from a patient who uses a bedside commode?
Send a sample to the laboratory each time the patient urinates.
Maintain the urine at room temperature during the collection period.
Strain the urine before placing it in the collection device.
Discard the first urination of the collection period.
A patient care technician is preparing to draw preoperative blood samples from a patient who is scheduled for surgery. Which of the following patient actions is an example of implied consent?
The patient provides a signed consent form.
The patient requests that the nurse perform the draw.
The patient extends their arm for the draw.
The patient asks for an explanation of the procedure.
Which of the following factors determines whether a child should have his capillary collection by the heel stick or finger stick method?
Most accessible body part
Age and development
Pain tolerance
Parent’s preference
A patient care technician is performing a routine 12-lead EKG on a patient. When reading the EKG strip, the technician observes -S-T segment elevation, which of the following conditions can cause these changes?
Myocardial ischemia
Second-degree AV block
Ventricular fibrillation
Congestive heart failure
A patient care technician has just finished a procedure and all their personal protective equipment (PPE) is visibly clean. Which of the following PPE items should the technician remove first?
Goggles
Gown
Mask
Gloves
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has a respiratory rate of 30/min. Which of the following terms should the technician use to describe the patient’s breathing pattern when reporting the vital signs to the nurse?
Dyspnea
Orthopnea
Bradypnea
Tachypnea
Which of the following government agencies provides guidelines for preventing and reporting injuries in the workplace?
OSHA
CLSI
HIPAA
CUA
A patient care technician is assigned to collect a chemistry panel and coagulation studies. Which of the following specimen tubes should the technician draw first?
Light blue
Green
Lavender
Yellow
Which of the following techniques should a patient care technician use when using a gait belt to ambulate a patient?
Hold the patient’s hands bilaterally
Walk directly behind the patient
Grasp the gait belt with an underhand grip
Secure the gait belt under the patient’s axilla
Which of the following actions should a patient care technician take when caring for a patient who has a feeding tube?
Place the patient in a dorsal recumbent position
Maintain the head of the bed at 15”
Assist the patient to a prone position
Keep the head of the bed elevated to 30”
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has a prescription for restraints. Which of the following action should the technician take?
Keep the patient in the prone position.
Ask the patient’s family to leave the room.
Ensure the restraints are applied under the patient’s clothing
Check on the patient every 15 min.
A patient care technician should identify that a patient’s use of an incentive spirometer after surgery assists with which of the following?
Preventing blood clots in the legs
Preventing cramps in the legs
Preventing pulmonary complications
Preventing abdominal complications
Which of the following is an example of a passive range-of-motion exercise?
The patient feeds himself breakfast independently.
The patient bends and flexes a joint on command.
The patient care technician assists the patient with dorsiflexion of his foot.
The patient care technician assists the patient with ambulation
A patient care technician is performing a venipuncture on a patient and sustains a needlestick injury. Which of the following actin should the technician take?
Report to OSHA and request preventative measures and further directives.
Call the provider to report the needlestick exposure.
Contact the supervisor and document the incident.
Ask the patient if they are infected with any bloodborne pathogens.
An emergency department sends two swabs from a 7-year-old child for influenza and strep. Only one swab has the patient’s label on it. Which of the following actions should be taken?
Contact the emergency department to recollect both specimens.
Call the emergency department nurse for verification of the unlabeled specimen.
Run both tests because the specimens arrived at the lab together.
Run the test on the labeled swab.
A patient care technician is emptying a patient’s foley bag and notices the urine is dark in color and has a strong odor. After emptying the bag, which of the following actions should the technician take?
Insert a straight catheter
Notify the nurse
Send for a culture and sensitivity
Irrigate the foley catheter
A patient care technician is performing an EKG and observers a wandering baseline. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Ask the patient to change positions
Start CPR
Unplug the surrounding equipment
Ensure electrodes are securely applied
The tracing below is an example of which of the following?
Atrial fibrillation
Second-degree AV block
Third-degree AV block
Atrial flutter
A patient care technician discovers a fire on the unit. Which of the following actions should the technician take first?
Attempt to extinguish the fire
Contain the fire
Activate the alarm
Evacuate patients in the area
A patient care technician is assigned to a new patient. Which of the following actions should the technician take when meeting the patient for the first Time?
Use terms of endearment with the patient.
Ask the patient what they would like to be called.
Call the patient by their first name.
Address the patient by their medical identification number.
A patient care technician is entering a new patient’s room for the first time. Which of the following actions should the technician take first?
Introduce themselves to the patient.
Put on gloves.
Greet the patient by name
Document patient information.
A patient care technician is performing a procedure, and he notices coffee ground emesis on the patient. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Send the sample to the lab.
Obtain a sputum specimen
Obtain a urine specimen
Save the sample to show to the nurse
A patient care technician notices new bruises on an older adult patient. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Notify facility security
Notify the provider
Notify the patient’s family
Notify the RN
A patient care technician’s hand is accidentally exposed to a patient’s blood. Which of the following actins should the technician take?
Report the incident to the hematology department.
Report the incident to environmental services.
Wash his hand with diluted bleach
Wash his hand with soap and water.
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has cancer. A member of the patient’s family asks. When is my mother going to get better?
It sounds like you are concerned about your mother’s condition
These things take time
Your mother is getting better
The doctor was in today and said your mother is improving
A patient care technician is preparing to perform basic CPR for an unresponsive patient. The technician does not have a face shield or automated external defibrillator (AED) with them. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Provide hand-only CPR immediately
Wait to begin CPR until a face shield is located.
What until an AED is available to begin CPR
Provide rescue breaths to the patient immediately.
A patient care technician is caring for a patient who has diabetes mellitus. The technician observes that the patient is sweaty and shaky. Which of the following actions should the technician take first?
Alert the charge nurse
Perform a venipuncture for blood glucose testing
Assess the patient’s heart rate
Provide the patient with a glass of water
Antiembolitic stockings are used to decrease the potential for which of the following?
Thrombophlebitis
Vesicles
Xeroderma
Aneurysm
A patient care technician is preparing to perform a heel stick on a infant. Which of the following actions should the technician take?
Prepare an evacuated tube set.
Warm the infants heel using a warm, damp washcloth.
Place a tourniquet just above the infant’s ankle
Select a winged infusion set for the heel stick.
A patient care technician is providing palliative care to an unconscious patient. The technician should recognize that which of the following senses is the last to leave a dying patient?
Hearing
SightTaste
Smell
Taste
A patient care technician has a prescription to collect a routine, clean-catch urine specimen from a patient. Which of the following instructions should the technician include?
Clean the genital area with a sterile towel. Collect all the urine from when you start to urinate until your bladder is completely empty.
Clean the genital area with the provided towel and urinate a small amount into the toilet. Then collect 1 to 2 ounce of urine midstream
Discard the first sample you collect and keep the specimen on ice
Please the urine collection hat under the toilet seat before urinating
A patient care technician has an order to collect a specimen for a urine culture. Which of the following methods of collections should the technician use?
Random urine specimen
Clean-catch midstream
First morning collection
24-hr urine collection
Which of the following finding should a patient care technician recognize as a risk factor of elder abuse?
Patient has a living will.
Patient has decreased strength and mobility
Patient has a health care surrogate
Patient has increased independence
