Chapter 11

Question 1

What are the typical labeling requirements for blood bank specimens ?

Answer 1

• Patients Full name (w middle initial)
• Patients hospital identification number (or other unique identification number)
• Patients D.O.B
• Date and time of collection
• Phlebotomist ID number or Full name
• Room or Bed number (optional)

Question 2

What is the purpose of a BBID?

Answer 2

The purpose is to protect patients and healthcare facilities from potentially Fatal errors made during identification and administration of blood products.

Question 3

What are the four key facts the nurse gathers in presence of the patients to validate the blood product?

Answer 3

• Healthcare’s provider’s identity, scanned from the barcode on his or her identification card.
• The patient’s identification scanned from the barcode on the patents wristband.
• The product’s unique barcoded donor identifier on the blood unit.
• The blood product’s barcode on the blood unit.

Question 4

Blood bank tests require the collection of one or more … of what colored tubes?

Answer 4

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