CLIA INSPECTION
An abbreviation for personal protective equipment.
What is PPE?
How often we have a CAP inspection by an outside Lab.
What is every two years?
Type of inspection out of state laboratories receive from NYS.
What is an announced inspection.
ISO accreditor with ILAC recognition.
What is A2LA?
The chemicals which may be stored under the sink.
What is none?
Results interpreted as Positive, Negative, Reactive, Non-Reactive or Invalid.
What are qualitative results?
The two most cited checklists.
What is All Common and General?
A Bachelors' Degree in Chemical, Physical or Biological Science plus this, is needed to become a supervisor in NYS.
What is 6 years experience?
What are 3 and 4?
A dangerous practice once utilized in the laboratory to draw up a desired volume of liquid.
What is mouth pipette?
Name and date of birth.
What are two unique identifiers?
The more serious deviation, Phase I or Phase II.
What is Phase II?
Two additional NYS competency assessment requirements.
What are safety and delegation of supervisory functions?
ISO certification required for a third party service provider.
What is ISO 17025?
Testing performed at the patient's bedside or as close to the patient as possible.
What is point of care testing?
The length of time you should wash your hands for.
What is 20 seconds?
The warning time we receive before CAP inspectors arrive.
What is one hour?
Instructions or guidance for staff that is hung up and needs to be signed annually.
What are bench excerpts?
Assessing equipment accuracy without performing adjustments.
What is Verification?
An approach to infection control stating that all human blood and certain human body fluids are treated as if known to be infectious.
What are universal precautions?
Modifying an FDA-cleared or approved test system.
What is "off label use"?
Done immediately after finishing up a CAP inspection.
What is celebrate?
A license required by NYS for a Laboratory Director in order to hold certain permit categories.
What is Certificate of Qualification (COQ)?
ISO concept achieved through physician & patient surveys.
What is Customer Focus?
Term that refers to the difference between the expected result and an accepted reference value.
What is bias?