A nurse is orienting another nurse to the procedures for collecting blood samples. Which statement indicates that the orientee needs further education?
a. "The tourniquet is placed so it can be re-moved by pulling one end.".
b. "A health vein is elastic and rebounds on palpation.".
c. "The specimen is labeled with the patient's name.".
d. "I clean the area with antiseptic swabs first.".
C
All specimens are labeled with two forms of patient identification. After you collect the speci-men and in the presence of the patient, you must label the container itself (not the lid) with the same two identifiers (e.g., patient name and hospital identification number), specimen source, collection date and time, series number (if more than one specimen), and anatomical site if ap-propriate (e.g., wound culture from knee versus abdominal incision). The other statements are all accurate for the methods involved in obtaining a blood specimen.
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