Blood Culture

Question 1

Step 1

Answer 1

identify the patient by checking the patient’s ID band

Question 2

Step 2

Answer 2

Apply the tourniquet and select a vein

Question 3

Step 3

Answer 3

Prepare and maintain a sterile field - place equipment of the field

Question 4

Step 4

Answer 4

Pour an appropriate cleaning solution into the tray and pop off the culture bottle lid

Question 5

Step 5

Answer 5

Clean hands and don sterile gloves

Question 6

Step 6

Answer 6

Clean site and top of culture bottle

Question 7

Step 7

Answer 7

Place 2nd sterile sheet with the opening over the site identified for injection

Question 8

Step 8

Answer 8

Insert needle and draw back on syringe, collecting no less than 10 mls of bloods

Question 9

Step 9

Answer 9

Release tourniquet and remove needle safely and apply pressure to site

Question 10

Step 10

Answer 10

Immediately inoculate into culture bottle first (do this) and then fill other tubes (say this)

Question 11

Step 11

Answer 11

Safely dispose of needle into the sharps container

Question 12

Step 12

Answer 12

Gently rotate the bottle and label and send to the lab