Page 4 - Patient Prep Flash Cards

Once you have washed Extend arm and

your hands and put on turn it so the palm

disposable gloves ask the

patient to... is facing up

Quite thin and not strong.

Very dark, very close to

surface, very thin and can Fragile

collapse and can rupture

during venipuncture

1. Education

Two parts of 2. Finding and

patient prepararion preparing a site for the

venipuncture

These veins are the

very last choice of Ankle and foot
veins
venipuncture...

Veins on the __________

tend to be more Dorsum

painful than

venipuncture