While working in the outpatient lab, Phil the New Phlebotomy Tech is instructing a patient on collecting a stool sample. He tells the patient, “Mrs. Ecoli, your doctor wants a sample of your feces to do some studies on. There are more specific instructions in the kit that I’m going to give you to take home, but in general, don’t take oily laxatives, antacids, red meat, or foods containing red dye before the test. Don’t collect a sample from stool mixed with urine or that’s in the toilet. There are directions in the box on how to collect the sample. Would you like me review that with you?” What (if anything) did Phil do wrong?
