Acronyms
Reviews / Assesments
Emergency
Records
PPE / Safety
100
CLIA
What is the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment in 1988?
100
All testing personnel must undergo this for every new protocol trained upon at six months, 12 months, and annually thereafter.
What are competency assessments
100
Fire extinguishing method (no acronyms please).
What is Pull Aim Squeeze Sweep?
100
Two of three occasions when you should fill out min/max recordings on temperature logs.
What is every Monday, after a 24 hour gap and when the last recording was out of range?
100
GeneDx approved germicide.
What is Caltech Dispatch?
200
HIPAA
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
200
These surveys, taken every 2 years measure referring physician's/client's or patient's level of content with laboratory service.
What are customer satisfaction surveys?
200
The emergency plans, contained in binders with yellow paper, are located here.
Where are the quality programs office and front desk?
200
Information that is required on reagent labels. Name 5 of the 7.
What is recollect the specimen/sample (best practice) or, if this is not possible, define the circumstances of the label correction, record the correction and complete a corrective action form, if appropriate? Give to the ROCC is also an appropriate answer.
200
This is an employee's first responsibility in the event of a person being exposed to potentially infectious or hazardous materials.
What is administer first aid?
300
CAP
What is the College of American Pathologists
300
Determination of laboratory testing performance by means of comparisons with other laboratories, companies or licensing entities.
What is proficiency testing
300
This emergency station is required in all GeneDx laboratories where hazardous chemicals are used and must be within a 10 second travel distance.
What is an eyewash station?
300
These procedures are done when the information on a specimen or DNA sample label requires correction.
What are full chemical name (not chemical symbols), concentration, lot number, storage conditions, date prepared, date opened and expiration date? Initials should also be included with each date but some info may be in the reagent log or solution log as appropriate.
300
GeneDx employees that should be trained on the potential of hazardous materials.
Who are all?
400
ROAD
What is Read, Observe, Ask, Discover?
400
Administrations that strictly prohibit inter-laboratory communication about proficiency testing until testing is complete.
What is CLIA and NYS?
400
Four response steps in an emergency (no acronyms please).
What is Rescue, Alert, Confine, and Escape?
400
(Daily Double) Records which include training and experience, copies of academic degrees or transcripts, licenses, certifications, description of duties, records of continued education, work related accidents/incidents, dates of employment.
What are Personnel Records?
400
Two points of evidence that GeneDx complies with safety regulations.
What are training records and written procedures?
500
OSHA
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
500
These are used in effort to correct and identify deficiencies throughout the laboratory and are required for maintaining accreditation.
What are self inspections?
500
MSDS binders (aka SDS binder) are found in two places for Core Support Services department. Name them.
Where are DNA Extraction Lab and quality systems office.
500
This procedure attempts to determine the cause of incident, identify the resolution, and prevent the incident from happening in the future.
What is Corrective Action?
500
The single most important means of preventing infection.
What is hand washing?
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