Pathologist.
HIPAA regulates what?
Protects privacy of health information. HIPAA requires that healthcare agencies and personnel protect a patient's private health information.
Most successful quality healthcare professional is...
Emotional stability.
What term is evidence that an individual that has demonstrated proficiency in a particular area of practice?
Certification.
Infectious agents, like bacteria and viruses, are what kind of safety hazard?
Biological hazard.
You entered a patient's room and explained that you need to draw blood, and the patient repeatedly refuses. What do you do?
When doffing, what is the last time that goes off?
GLOVES
Substance used to clean surfaces other than living tissue?
Disinfectant.
What action should you take immediately after withdrawing the needle from the patient?
Apply pressure to the site.
Needles and lancets are what kind of hazard?
Sharps hazard.
When donning, what is the last time that goes on?
GLOVES.
Are you able to wear a watch to work?
YES
Which laboratory department perform blood typing?
Immunohematology.
Which laboratory department uses genetic and biochemical techniques to analyze DNA in specimens?
Molecular diagnostics.
Structure that returns blood to the heart...
Veins.
Most common needle gauge...
20-22
What does the term multisample needle mean?
The needle has a retractable rubber sleeve that covers one end of the needle when a blood collecting tube is not attached.
Structures that carry blood away from the heart...
Arteries.
Heparin.
Color tube for a CBC?
Lavender. EDTA tubes.
Cephalic, basilic, and medical cubital veins are all located in what area?
Antecubital fossa.
Which anticoagulant used for coagulation studies?
Sodium citrate.
What is the first action one should take when stuck with a bloody needle?
FIRST AID
The pathogen West Nile Virus is carried by mosquitoes. What type of transmission is this?
Vector. Agents such as ticks or insects that carries an infectious agent.
Which blood vessels are the smallest, consisting of only a single layer of epithelial cell...
Capillaries.