Uh Oh!
Who is responsible for cancelling tubes as "out of stability?"
Med techs
When double-checking a requisition, what are the four criteria you look for to match?
Patient name, clinic, provider, tests
You find an SST with a 65 label. What do you do with it?
Give it to micro to cancel
You scan an in-center tube and it reads Duplicate - Already Resulted. What do you do?
Scan into your duplicate tracking log and place in reject bucket
Which three tracking tickets are sent at the end of your shift?
Duplicates, handwrittens, rejected damaged
You receive an incorrect tube labeled as SST 19. Before you cancel it, you notice some tests have been resulted. What do you do?
Do not cancel
When receiving a canceled specimen, which modalities require a manual requisition to be made?
HHD, CCPD
In a Special Chemistry ATTN supervisor shipment, what are you looking for?
A post tube with a 10 or 21 label
A specimen has a double label, but both labels match. What do you do?
Cancel the specimen
A shipment comes in with two TempMark monitors and one of them is red. What do you do?
Cancel all tubes in the box
On a double labeled tube where both barcodes are visible, do you cancel the top or bottom label?
Top
When creating a new requisition, which tests from the old requisition should it include?
All of them
Place it on Verify Patient Information hold and process as normal
You cancel a lavender with a 19 label as an incorrect tube. Twenty minutes later, the actual SST 19 shows up. What do you do?
Place it in your reject rack. The tube remains cancelled
What do you do when you have an RNOF that isn't crossing over?
Create an IT ticket
You find a tube that has had its contents spilled. What do you cancel it as?
Lab error accident
What should be written at the top of a new requisition sheet?
Incident number, date, both sets of initials
In a Hematology ATTN Supervisor shipment, what are you looking for?
A coag (light blue) tube with a 31 label
What's the process when we see an HHD tube with a resulted date several weeks old?
Look for a current matching requisition - if one can't be found, create a new requisition
Where should the incident rack be placed at the end of the day shift?
On the problem cart
A tube is both unspun and an incorrect tube. Which do you cancel it as?
Incorrect tube
Which holds should be placed on a newly created requisition?
535 - No Req Received, 545 - Need an ICD9 Code
When performing a physical search, what ways can you look for a tube in FlexLab?
Specimen ID and patient ID
In which three areas do we make a note of partial barcodes?
Where should the incident rack be placed at the end of the night shift?
In the send-out bucket in the walk-in cooler