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:
0:00Opening
0:20Goal of this video
0:30Consequences to the patient and the healthcare professional
0:58A clip from "Basic Venipuncture"
2:27What the standards require for inpatient and outpatient ID bands
3:00What to do when the Identification band is unattached
3:15How to ID outpatients without ID bands
3:32The Golden Rule of Patient Identification
3:56Why the Golden Rule works
5:59Dennis's personal story about being misidentified
8:40You and the temptations coming your way

Other videos mentioned in this video:

Basic Venipuncturehttps://www.phlebotomy.com/basicveni...

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