Tips to Shorten the Time the Tourniquet Is Applied to the Patient's

question 30

Multiple Choice

Tips to shorten the time the tourniquet is applied to the patient's arm and therefore to reduce preexamination variables when performing venipunctures include all of the following except:

• A) feeling for veins with a stroking motion.
• B) feeling for the characteristic spongy, resilient, tube-like feel of veins.
• C) feeling for veins with a pushing motion.
• D) feeling for veins with the tip of the index finger on the nondominant hand.

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