Uh Oh!
DIY
Trials and Tribulations
Double Trouble
Smorgasbord
100

Who is responsible for cancelling tubes as "out of stability?"

Med techs

100

When double-checking a requisition, what are the four criteria you look for to match?

Patient name, clinic, provider, tests

100

You find an SST with a 65 label. What do you do with it?

Give it to micro to cancel

100

You scan an in-center tube and it reads Duplicate - Already Resulted. What do you do?

Scan into your duplicate tracking log and place in reject bucket

100

Which three tracking tickets are sent at the end of your shift?

Duplicates, handwrittens, rejected damaged

200

You receive an incorrect tube labeled as SST 19. Before you cancel it, you notice some tests have been resulted. What do you do?

Do not cancel

200

When receiving a canceled specimen, which modalities require a manual requisition to be made?

HHD, CCPD

200

In a Special Chemistry ATTN supervisor shipment, what are you looking for?

A post tube with a 10 or 21 label

200

A specimen has a double label, but both labels match. What do you do?

Cancel the specimen

200

A shipment comes in with two TempMark monitors and one of them is red. What do you do?

Cancel all tubes in the box

300

On a double labeled tube where both barcodes are visible, do you cancel the top or bottom label?

Top

300

When creating a new requisition, which tests from the old requisition should it include?

All of them

300
A tube is showing a different last name when you scan it into LIS, but all other details are the same. What do you do?

Place it on Verify Patient Information hold and process as normal

300

You cancel a lavender with a 19 label as an incorrect tube. Twenty minutes later, the actual SST 19 shows up. What do you do?

Place it in your reject rack. The tube remains cancelled

300

What do you do when you have an RNOF that isn't crossing over?

Create an IT ticket

400

You find a tube that has had its contents spilled. What do you cancel it as?

Lab error accident

400

What should be written at the top of a new requisition sheet?

Incident number, date, both sets of initials

400

In a Hematology ATTN Supervisor shipment, what are you looking for?

A coag (light blue) tube with a 31 label

400

What's the process when we see an HHD tube with a resulted date several weeks old?

Look for a current matching requisition - if one can't be found, create a new requisition

400

Where should the incident rack be placed at the end of the day shift?

On the problem cart

500

A tube is both unspun and an incorrect tube. Which do you cancel it as?

Incorrect tube

500

Which holds should be placed on a newly created requisition?

535 - No Req Received, 545 - Need an ICD9 Code

500

When performing a physical search, what ways can you look for a tube in FlexLab?

Specimen ID and patient ID

500

In which three areas do we make a note of partial barcodes?

Specimen notes, SNow ticket, reject spreadsheet
500

Where should the incident rack be placed at the end of the night shift?

In the send-out bucket in the walk-in cooler