Clinical Chemistry · stage 1 of 6

Before the tube is filled

Everything that has to be right before you draw: the request itself, the person in front of you, and the barriers that keep both of you safe. Finish this stage and you can take a specimen that is defensible from the first second it exists.

Work through these in order

1. 1Recognizing a request that should be questionedSpecimen Collection
2. 2Meeting each patient without assuming you already understand themProfessionalism
3. 3Telling the patient what the test needsSpecimen Collection
4. 4Talking with the patient in front of youProfessionalism
5. 5Keeping patient information inside the circle of careProfessionalism
6. 6Confirming you have the right patientSpecimen Collection
7. 7Routine practices and additional precautionsSafety
8. 8Choosing, wearing and removing protective equipmentSafety
9. 9Hand hygiene at the benchSafety
10. 10Engineering controls and built-in safety devicesSafety
11. 11Performing the draw itselfSpecimen Collection
12. 12Reducing the chance of exposure during routine workSafety
13. 13Spotting when the collection itself went wrongSpecimen Collection
14. 14Keeping an unbroken paper trail for legal specimensSpecimen Collection

This reading order is MLTPrep’s own. To browse the same material filed against the competency areas instead, go back to the Clinical Chemistry study guide.

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