Specimen Labeling Learning Packet for Licensed Professionals

Specimen Labeling Learning Packet for Licensed Professionals

APPENDIX C

Specimen Labeling Learning Packet for Licensed Professionals

Post Test

Date______

Name______Title______

Supervisor Score

Please read each question carefully and mark the appropriate answer. You must achieve a score of 100%.

If you have any questions, ask your supervisor.

  1. Place the following steps for patient identification in the CORRECT ORDER:

______Affix the label to the tube/specimen container, sign/initial if blood

bank tubes

______Obtain specimen

______Reconfirm patient’s identity prior to affixing the label

______Confirm the patient’s identity by comparing the name and MRN on

the label to the name and MRN on the ID band

  1. If the name and/or the MRN on the ID band does NOT match the name and MRN on the barcode label:
  1. Do not obtain the specimen and try again later
  2. Inform the nurse and do not obtain the specimen
  3. Obtain the specimen and label anyway
  4. Check with the patient in the next bed
  1. If the patient is not wearing an ID band:
  1. Ask the patient their name and proceed
  2. Do not obtain the specimen and try again later
  3. Check the sign by the door or above the bed to confirm the patient’s identity
  4. Request the nurse to put on an ID band before obtaining the specimen

4. You are responding to a cardiac arrest/trauma in the Emergency Department. Central venous access is obtained and specimen samples are drawn. The patient has not yet been registered. What is the appropriate next step?

  1. Write the patient’s name and DOB on the tube, sign/initial (if it is a blood bank type and screen specimen)and send to the lab.
  2. Write the patient’s name on the tube, when the bar code labels are printed affix them to the tube.
  3. Write the patient’s name and DOB on the tube and when the labels are available affix them to the tube.
  4. Write the patient’s name and DOB on the tube, initial the tube and when the labels are available affix them after the name and DOB on the tube have been verified by you and confirmed by another clinician.

5.You are called to assist with a hypotensive patient sustaining a gastrointestinal bleed. A blood transfusion is indicated and a type and screen must be obtained. The patient is now unresponsive. While initiating normal saline infusion, which step should be followed?

  1. Send the specimen sample without further labeling for processing immediately as this is an extreme emergency.
  2. Write the patient’s name and MRN on the T&S and ask the nurse to affix the barcode label after it is generated
  3. Leave the T&S tube blank and ask the patient’s nurse to obtain the barcode label and affix it to the T&S while you continue to care for the patient.
  4. IF a barcode label is not immediately available, confirm the patient’s name and MRN on their wrist band and write the patient’s name and MRN on the T&S OR affix a patient sticker to the T&S, sign/initial the label.

6. When would it be acceptable to double label a sample?

a. When the barcode label is printed after the sample has been drawn.

b. After the tube/specimen label has been filled-out (handwritten) a patient sticker can be attached.

c. Double label is NEVER acceptable.

d.When both barcode label and patient sticker are available at the time the specimen is obtained.

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Revised 2/27/08

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