They collect and analyze specimens, including blood, urine, stool (feces), sputum, cells, and tissues
What is a clinical laboratory?
Analyzes blood and other specimens for the presence of particular substances, such as cholesterol or glucose
What is the Chemistry Department?
Diagnoses and treats mental health disorders,
What is a therapist?
In health care, ensuring that care is being provided according to facility policy and procedures, with results to meet expectation
What is Quality Assurance?
Having to do with work or a job.
What is professional?
To make a medical determination of illness
What is to diagnose?
A portion or sample of something larger, collected for study or analysis.
What is a specimen?
Studies blood and its properties
What is the Hematology Department?
Who runs all the specimens once they reach the lab?
Medical Laboratory Technician
In health care, practices that seek to make care better in a way that can be measured.
What is Quality Improvement?
Having to do with life outside a job.
What is personal?
In healthcare, a person or entity that provides medical care or treatment.
What is a provider?
Enforce Federal regulations regarding the staffing and operation of clinical labor
What is the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments. ( CLIA )
Studies a patient’s immune response, which might be triggered by illness,
What is Immunology?
A person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment.
What is a patient?
A nonprofit organization that develops standards of practice for laboratories worldwide.
What is the CLSI?
(Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute )
Behaving properly when on the job.
What is Professionalism?
In the health care industry organizations — such as health plan providers, Medicare, and Medicaid or individuals
What is a payer
The laboratory that receives a specimen from another laboratory and that performs one or more tests on such specimen.
What is the Reference Laboratory
Looks at microorganisms, such as bacteria and viruses, in specimens
What is the microbiology Department?
A a nurse who has advanced clinical education and training. NPs share many of the same duties as doctors.
What is a Nurse Practioner?
Encourages healthcare facilities to work toward these aims:
Better care, Healthy people/healthy communities and Affordable care
What is the National Quality Strategy?
identifying with the feelings of others.
What is Empathy?
To check a patient in to a medical facility for inpatient care.
What is "to admit" in healthcare?
A clinical laboratory, the department concerned with the study of the causes and effects of disease.
What is Pathology?
immunohematology performs blood typing and analysis for donor/recipient compatibility and prepares blood for transfusion
what is a Blood Bank?
A person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment.
What is a patient?
Oversees Quality Assurance and Quality Impovement measures to ensure the best care is provided to patients.
What is the Joint Commission?
Careful; guided by a sense of what is important and right.
What is abeing conscientious?
A place where healtcare is delivered or administered.
What is a facility?