The is the laboratory phase in which the phlebotomist must id the pt, prepare and assess the patient and collect the sample.
What is the pre-examination process?
100
What is EMR?
What is electronic medical record?
100
Objects that carry and transmit infection.
What are fomites?
100
How long should you wash your eyes out at an eyewash station after exposure to chemicals?
What is 15 minutes?
100
Prolonged tourniquet use on a venipuncture can cause what problem with the RBC's?
What is hemolysis?
200
Respect, Service, Support, and Growth are the four categories of this.
What are the four categories of professionalism?
200
The voluntary permission given by a patient to allow toching, examination, and /or treatment by health care providers
What is informed consent?
200
Designed by the CDC, these have been developed to prevent or decrease the risk of transmission of microorganisms from both recognized and unrecognized sources of infections in hospitals.
What are standard precautions?
200
These tests are run what tube? Glucose, BUN, ionized calcium, creatinine, electrolyte studies.
What is the light green/lithium heparin tube?
200
Handwashing is more effective because the hand sanitizing gels do not kill which GI bacteria that is contagious?
What is Clostridium difficile?
300
When the phlebotomists assist the lab to verify the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements in testing is the definition of what?
What is quality?
300
How soon after an injury due to malpractice a plaintiff must file the lawsuit or be forever barred from doing so.
What is a statute of limitations?
300
What does RACE stand for?
What is Rescue, Alert, Confine and Extinguish?
300
True or false: It is acceptable practice to re-palpate the vein if the gloved finger is cleaned with alcohol.
What is False?
300
This vein is the preffered and most commonly used vein for venipuncture because why? (2 part question)
What is the median cubital vein, because it is the easiest vein to locate, less painful and least prone to injury if the needle is not precisely located in the vein.
400
Anemia caused by frequent testing of the patient/phlebotomy.
What is iatrogrenic anemia
400
What CMS regulates all clinical laboratories through, as their regulations are periodically revised to any site that tests human specimens.
What is CLIA Amendments of 1988
400
What is MSDS?
What is Material Safety Data Sheets?
400
The results for glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, electrolytes, proteins, are more reliable when the specimens are collected from a patient when they are in what metabolic state?
What is basal state?
400
The CLSI recommends a heel stick depth of no more than what for infants and why? (2 parts)
What is 2.0 mm, because of the risk of penetrating the bone.
500
A system of values, beliefs, and practices that stem from one's concept of reality.
What is culture?
500
For infections, there are different ways to pass pathogens such as direct contact, air, medical instruments, vectors, droplets. What is this called
What is the mode of transmission?
500
What is the NFPA and what does it do?
What is the National Fire Protection Agency, and it is a marking system for hazardous chemicals frequently used in hospitals.
500
When medications such as Tylenol and erythromycin interfere with liver enzymes and bilirubin levels, this is known as what?
What is drug intereference?
500
If drawing a sodium level which tube should not be used to collect a specimen for this.