Agencies
An independent organization that establishes standards for the opporation of hospitals and other healthcare facilities?
Who is The Joint Commision (TJC)?
Established policies and procedures fall under an overall process called
Quality Assurance (QA)?
A phlebotomist who attempts to collect a blood specimen on a minor without the parents consent can face what charges?
What is Assault and Battery?
The phlebotomist role in specimen handling in the preanalytical phase starts with what?
What is the test order?
What agency manages federal healthcare programs?
Who is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)?
What must be measurable, well-defined, objective, and specific?
What is Quality Indicator (QI)?
What is a wrongful act committed against someone’s person, property, reputation, or other legally protected right?
What is Tort Law?
Which specimen can be centrifuged immediately upon arrival in specimen processing?
What is calcium in a green top tube?
Provides scientific and technical advice and guidance?
Who is the Clinical Labratory Improvement Advisory Commitee (CLIAC)?
What he is on every operational procedure or process to make certain it is performed correctly?
What is Quality Control (QC)?
This Latin phrase means “the thing speaks for itself”?
What is Res Ipsa Loquitur?
What is the minimum time that a blood specimen in an SST tube need to sit before it can be centrifuged?
What is 30 minutes?
Developed clinical and labratory practices and promotes their use worldwide.
Clinical and Labratory Standards Institute (CLSI)?
What must be established for all quality indicators?
What is a Threshold Value?
If a phlebotomist tells a patient they are going to collect their blood, and the patient holds out their arm, it is considered:
What is implied consent?
What is used when multiple tests are ordered on a single specimen, and the tests are performed on different instruments?
What is an aliquot?
What organization is recognized by the department of education as an authority on quality clinical Labratory education?
Who is the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Labratory Scientists (NAACLS)?
What companies current results of a Labratory test with previous results for the same test, on the same patient?
What is a Delta Check?
If a patient refuses to have their blood drawn, what must be filled out?
What is a Refusal of Consent Form?
What are the 3 phases of the Labratory process that the quality of results depend on?
What are Preanalytical, Analytical, and Postanalytical?