AGENCIES
Ensures safe and healthy working conditions for employees.
What is OSHA?
He discovered there are 4 types of body fluid.
Who is Hippocrates?
Patient has a known or suspected infection that can be transmitted by anything the patient has touched or that has touched them.
What is Contact Isolation?
This ensures that lab test data and results are consistent, accurate, and precise.
What is Lab Validation?
A microbe that causes infection.
What is a pathogen?
Defines the responsibilities of persons working in the lab and the minimum education and experience needed to perform a specific lab test.
What is CLIA?
He developed normal reference ranges.
Who is Robert Boyle?
Patient has a known or suspected pathogen that can be transmitted through the air.
What is Airborne Isolation?
The services that a qualified health professional is deemed competent to perform and permitted to undertake in keeping with the terms of their professional license.
What is Scope of Practice?
An organism that lives and reproduces WITHOUT oxygen.
What is an anaerobic organism?
The leading physician office accreditation organization that promotes health and safety.
What is COLA?
Discovered the double helix structure of DNA.
Who is Watson and Crick?
Patient has a know or suspected pathogen transmitted by respiratory droplets that are generated by coughing, sneezing, or talking.
What is Droplet Precaution?
Precautions used for ALL patient care. Ex: handwashing, wearing PPE, following cough etiquette, properly handling equipment, and practicing sharps safety.
What is Standard Percautions?
The way an organism exits the body (feces, urine, etc)
What is the Portal of Exit?
The main accreditation agency for the lab that ensures the lab provides precise test results for patient testing, meets CLIA standards, and demonstrates compliance with professional and scientifically approved standard operating procedures.
What is CAP?
The father of modern genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Patient had a known or suspected pathogen that can be transmitted through blood and body fluids.
What is Bloodborne Precautions?
The area where an infectious agent can live.
What is a Reservoir?
A person likely to get an infection due to a weak immune system.
What is a Susceptible Host?
The medical doctor that oversees the laboratory.
What is a pathologist?
He is the father of microbiology.
Who is Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek?
These are used in ADDITION to standard precautions for patients with know or suspected infections that are put on Contact, Airborne, Droplet or Bloodborne percautions.
What is Transmission Based Precautions?
Errors that occur prior to or before testing occurs. Ex. patient not properly identified, proper tubes not collected, etc
What are Preanalytical Errors?
Objects that van be contaminated by microbes like doorknobs, tables, or linens.
What is a Fomite?