Nurses QUIZ for Blood culture procedure - Prepared by Dr Umesh Kumar, King Salman Hospital, Riyadh
Blood Culture Procedure Quiz
This quiz is designed for nurses and healthcare professionals to test their knowledge on blood culture procedures. It covers essential topics such as contamination, skin disinfection, and proper blood volume collection.
- 11 Thought-provoking questions
- Enhance your understanding of blood culture
- Improve patient care quality
Why is a blood culture done?
To determine cause of fever
Routinely as baseline investigation
Done for all critical cases
To diagnose leukemia
Recommended volume of blood to be collected for blood culture for adult patients
2- 3 mL
1-2 mL
4-5 mL
8-10mL
What is the blood culture bottle to be used when patient is on antibiotics?
Aerobic botle
Aerobic bottle with resin
Aerobic and anaerobic bottles with resin
Anaeroic bottles
What do you understand by contaminated blood culture?
Mixed bacterial species growing in culture
Skin bacteria growing in culture
Both 1 and 2
None of the above
The following are responsible for blood culture contamination
Improper skin disinfection
Improper disinfection of blood culture bottle rubber stopper
Palapting the vein after skin disinfection
All of the above
The recommended skin disinfectant to be used before blood culture sampling
2% Chlorhexidine
2% Cholrhexidiene + 70% Isopropyl alcohol
0.7% povidone iodine
2% methanol
The skin disinfectant should be applied how long for proper disinfection to occur?
30 seconds
20 seconds
10 seconds
Immediate
How does a contaminated blood culture impact patient care?
Prolonged stay and effects due to that
Patient dissatisfaction
Increasing cost
All of the above
What is the current blood culture contamination rate in our hospital?
20%
10%
5%
Less than 2%
What is the international rates of blood culture contamination?
< 2%
5%
8%
10%
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