Proper Patient Identification When Drawing Blood Samples

When phlebotomists and other healthcare professionals who draw blood make exceptions to the standard protocol for identifying patients can launch a cascade of events with serious consequences. Not just for the patient, but for themselves as well. This video details what the industry standard mandates for patient identification prior to a blood draw. The presenter, Dennis J. Ernst, distills it all down to The Golden Rule of Patient Identification that will prevent you from ever drawing blood from the wrong patient. Your Personal Phlebotomy Guru also describes an incident in which he was personally misidentified.
Time Codes:
0:00---Opening
0:20---Goal of this video
0:30---Consequences to the patient and the healthcare professional
0:58---A clip from "Basic Venipuncture"
2:27---What the standards require for inpatient and outpatient ID bands
3:00---What to do when the Identification band is unattached
3:15---How to ID outpatients without ID bands
3:32---The Golden Rule of Patient Identification
3:56---Why the Golden Rule works
5:59---Dennis's personal story about being misidentified
8:40---You and the temptations coming your way
Other videos mentioned in this video:
Basic Venipuncture---www.phlebotomy.com/basic-veni...
How to Label a Blood Sample--- • The Zen of Phlebotomy:...
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