Past, Present, QA, and Legal Issues
Infection Control
Blood Collection Equipment
Venipuncture Procedures
Hodgepodge
100
This law established national standards for the electronic exchange of protected health information (PHI)
What is HIPPA
100
Contracting the plague from the bite of a rodent flea is an example of what type of infection transmission
What is vector infection
100
Identify the color of tube needed to collect a coagulation test such as PT/INR or PTT
What is a light-blue top
100
Excess swelling and fluid found in an appendage is known as what and should never be used to perform a venipuncture
What is Edema
100
A mixture of __________, _____________, and interstitial fluids make up capillary blood
What is venous blood and arterial blood
200
This is a federal law that allows the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Department of Health and Human services to regulate all sites performing lab testing in the U.S. including low, moderate, and high complexity testing.
What is CLIA88
200
This is the most important step to take in breaking the chain of infection
What is hand hygiene
200
It is important to mix anticoagulant tubes after filling them with blood to avoid:
What is possible clot formation
200
EDTA, Sodium Heparin, Sodium Oxalate, and Lithium heparin are commonly encountered in the clinical lab as what?
What is tube anticoagulants
200
This test is collected on special filter paper to test for certain deficiencies in newborn babies.
What is a PKU
300
This organization is a voluntary, nongovernmental agency charged with establishing standards for the operation of hospitals and other health related facilities and services, and whose mission is to continuously improve healthcare for the public, by evaluating healthcare organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care.
What is The Joint Commission
300
What type of isolation would be used for a patient receiving chemotherapy
What is reverse isolation
300
A patient has small difficult veins, and you decide to use a butterfly to perform the draw, what is another name for this device:
What is a winged infusion set
300
This is the best place to perform a venipuncture on a patient with a recent mastectomy on the left side, and an IV midway down the right arm
What is below the IV on the right arm
300
This is the time it was be appropriate to collect a 1-hour glucose specimen on a glucose tolerance test, in which the patient was initially drawn at 08:15 for her "fasting specimen" and finished the glucose drink at 08:20.
What is 0920 hours
400
An institution that provides inpatient services, and offers specialized instrumentation, such as a hospital is an example of ________________ care
What is Non-ambulatory
400
This federal organization is responsible for ensuring safe working conditions, such as making sure you have access to PPE during work
Who is OSHA
400
Of the following tubes, which can be used to collect s serum specimen: Light Blue Tiger Top PST Green Top
What is a tiger top
400
This is considered the most critical error a phlebotomist can make:
What is misidentifying a patient specimen resulting in erroneous results
400
This is the term for a procedure performed in the clinical lab in which a unit (500 mL) of blood is removed from a patient to treat a condition such as polycythemia, or hemochromatosis
What is therapeutic phlebotomy
500
This organization is recognized by the U.S. department of education, and is an authority on education quality and is responsible for accrediting laboratory education programs such as the one you are taking.
What is NAACLS
500
OSHA developed the Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom) to protect employees who may be exposed to hazardous chemicals. According to the law all chemicals must be evaluated for health hazards and such information much my communicated to employees. GHS is a system of classification and labeling of such chemicals what does GHS stand for?
What is Globally Harmonized System
500
Which of the following needles has the "largest" as in diameter gauge: 18g 20g 21g 23g
What is 18g
500
This is the correct tube color and draw order for a patient that has an order for a Blood Culture, CBC, PT/INR and Chemistry profile
What is Sterile or Yellow (Blood Culture), Light-Blue (PT/INR), PST (Green) {Chemistry} or Serum or SST (Red, Gold, Tiger) {Chemistry}, and finally Lavendar (CBC)
500
In this type of testing large instruments, once only available, in the lab have giving way to bed-side testing which can accurately measure certain blood tests like glucose, electrolytes, ABG's with reduced time, and required blood sample
What is POC or Point of Care
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