Question

You report to work and Discover the Officer is short strafed for the day. You are feeling the pressure for the time and know that you need to keep the physicans on track with their scheduled patients. You also have patients scheduled for labs. Your first patient arrives for labs, and you gathers all your necessary supplies. As you are ready to perform the venipuncture, your patient faints. What do you do?

Answer 1

Ans) A typical fainting spell is self-limited and usually the patient comes around fairly quickly. However, the phlebotomist should stay with the patient for at least 15-30 minutes to ensure the patient has fully recovered from the fainting episode. In shorting of staff, suppose 2 staffs are at work then let one staff calm the patient and other carry on the duty.

- Educate the patients that tense your arms by gripping the fingers of one hand with those of the other and trying to pull them apart. Or make fists and squeeze your hands as tightly as you can. These strategies, all tested in an international trial, helped people who routinely fainted.