Deck 15: Special Nonblood Collection Procedures

Question 1

What specimen sample is used to check the success of vasectomy procedures?

A) Blood
B) Saliva
C) Semen
D) Urine

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What collection technique is most often used to collect a urine sample for a urine culture?

A) Clean catch
B) First morning
C) Random
D) Timed

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What type of fecal testing is used to screen for colorectal cancer?

A) Culture
B) Fecal fat
C) O&P
D) Occult blood

Answer 3

D

Question 4

How soon after collection must a urine sample be delivered to the lab?

A) Within 5 minutes
B) Within 30 minutes
C) Within 1 hour
D) Within 24 hours

Question 5

What urine collection technique requires a nurse or trained patient care assistant to collect the specimen?

A) Catheterized
B) Clean catch
C) First morning
D) Suprapubic

Question 6

What is the minimum period that a man should be instructed to wait after the last ejaculation before collecting a semen sample for analysis?

A) 12 hours
B) 1 day
C) 3 days
D) 1 week

Question 7

What type of urine collection is commonly used for routine testing of metabolic abnormalities?

A) Catheterized
B) First morning
C) Random
D) Times

Question 8

What type of fecal testing is used to detect the amoeba Giardia?

A) Culture
B) Fat
C) O&P
D) Occult blood

Question 9

Which organ of the body creates urine?

A) Bladder
B) Liver
C) Kidney
D) Pancreas

Question 10

A 72-hour stool specimen is a rarely collected test that may be used for what type of fecal testing?

A) Culture
B) Fat
C) O&P
D) Occult blood

Question 11

The most common timed urine collection is done over what time period?

A) 1 hour
B) 4 hours
C) 24 hours
D) 1 week

Question 12

What type of specimen is needed for a rapid strep test?

A) Blood
B) Sputum
C) Throat swab
D) Urine

Question 13

What type of urine testing usually requires a temperature-sensitive strip on the outside of the container?

A) C&S
B) Drug test
C) Pregnancy test
D) Routine

Question 14

Which of the following requires a sample of feces?

A) C&S
B) CSF
C) NP
D) O&P

Question 15

What urine collection technique requires a physician to collect the specimen?

A) Catheterized
B) Clean catch
C) First morning
D) Suprapubic

Question 16

What type of urine collection is best for pregnancy tests?

A) Catheterized
B) First morning
C) Random
D) Timed

Question 17

Which of the following is the proper way to collect a 24 hour urine specimen, beginning at 9 AM Thursday?

A) Collect and discard the first specimen (0900 Thursday). Collect and keep all the samples until 0900 Friday. At 0900 Friday, collect and keep the last sample.
B) Collect and keep the 0900 Thursday urine and all the urine samples for 24 hours, and keep the 0900 Friday specimen.
C) Collect and keep the 0900 Thursday urine and all the urine samples for 24 hours, and discard the 0900 Friday specimen.
D) Collect and discard the Thursday 0900 urine, collect and keep all urine samples for 24 hours, and discard the 0900 Friday specimen.

Question 18

Patients must be instructed to abstain from ingesting meat and the drugs aspirin and vitamin C for 3 days for some brands of what type of fecal testing?

A) Culture
B) Fat
C) O&P
D) Occult blood

Question 19

Which of the following is an acceptable specimen for semen analysis?

A) A sample collected in a condom at the health care facility
B) A sample collected in a sterile container at home and immediately delivered to the lab
C) A sample collected in a sterile container at home and refrigerated during transport
D) A urine sample collected in a sterile container immediately after ejaculation

Question 20

What type of fecal testing is used to detect diarrhea-causing bacterial diseases such as Salmonella?

A) Culture
B) Fecal fat
C) O&P
D) Occult blood

Question 21

The sweat electrolyte test is used in the diagnosis of what condition?

A) Cystitis
B) Cystic fibrosis
C) Chloride deficit
D) Cholecystitis

Question 22

What specimen is collected to diagnose whooping cough and croup?

A) CSF
B) NP swab
C) Throat swab
D) Urine

Question 23

An amniotic fluid specimen must be protected from which of the following?

A) Air
B) Heat
C) Light
D) Moisture

Question 24

Amniotic fluid can be analyzed to detect the presence of what genetic chromosomal abnormality in the fetus?

A) Ascites
B) Cleft palate
C) Down syndrome
D) Diabetes

Question 25

What type of specimen is tested in the diagnosis of meningitis?

A) Amniotic fluid
B) Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
C) Pleural fluid
D) Synovial fluid

Question 26

What drug is used to increase sweating for sweat collection studies?

A) Aspirin
B) Lidocaine
C) Pilocarpine
D) Trypsin

Question 27

Which type of fluid collection requires a physician?

A) CSF
B) Nasopharyngeal (NP) swab
C) Semen
D) Sweat

Question 28

What is the procedure that induces sweating via application of a weak electric current?

A) Ascites
B) Electrophoresis
C) Iontophoresis
D) Pericarditis