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Potpourri
100

The standard amount of time the kitchen needs to prepare a meal.

What is 45 Minutes?

100

PPE necessary for working with a patient under contact precautions.

Gloves and gown.

100

How often the hopper in the soiled utility room should be flushed.

What is once daily?

100

A laboratory tool commonly used in chemistry, biology and medicine to transport a measured volume of liquid. 

What is a pipette? 

100

The type of soup that was ordered from SIMPLS for Adi's going away party. 

What is Coconut Beet Ginger?

200

The time frame coordinators are unable to schedule their own appointments in the portal and must call the CRU to schedule.

What is two weeks?

200

What the letter 'D' in AIDET stands for.

What is duration?

200

The day of the week that the dirty linen cart is brought to the Fairview hallway.

What is Friday?

200

How often the eyewash station in the lab need to be inspected.

What is weekly?

200

The two characters on the front of the green binder that contains staff contact information and bi-weekly schedules.

What is Scooby Doo and Shaggy?

300

The three doctors that we can contact on-call.

Whom is Dr. Chow, Dr. Billings, and Dr. Bellin? 

300

Two items used in the CRU that are disposed of in the black (RCRA) “Hazardous Waste” box in the soiled utility room.

What is insulin tubing and buretrols?

300

The location where empty supply bins are placed when they need to be ordered. 

What is the left side, on the top shelf labelled in red with MEDICAL STAFF: PLACE EMPTY BINS HERE.

300

A concentration of all the white blood cells and platelets in a sample of blood after centrifugation.

What is the buffy coat?

300

Name three different services provided by the HealthEast Ways to Wellness Program.

What is cooking classes, acupuncture, massage, fitness (pilates, yoga, group fitness), life coaching, and/or meditation?

400

The website we refer people to if they call to find out what studies are available.

400

The four words that make up the STAR acronym used as an error prevention tool presented in Safety Always.

What is Stop, Think, Act, Review?

400

The number of red top waste tubes kept in the venipuncture boxes in each room.

What is 6?

400

The amount of accelerative force applied to a sample in a centrifuge 

What is relative centrifugal force (RCF)?

400

Measures the rate of oxygen consumption, which is directly proportional to the glucose concentration of plasma in a blood sample. 



What is an Analox GM9 Glucose Analyser?

500

The 'dummy' protocol number used to schedule some Bionet protocols not listed in the portal.

What is 23876?

500

The number of time points after the "0" time for a typical 3-hour OGTT (i.e. study P934).

What is 8?

500

The first name of our McKesson supplies representative.

Whom is Scott?

500

A cannula that inserts easily through the rubber stopper of a blood collection tube used for making a blood smear. 

What is the DIFF-SAFE® blood dispenser?


500

The date of the last 2019 University of Minnesota Farmers Market on the Gateway Plaza, just outside the McNamara Alumni Center. 

What is September 25?

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