Equipment
Abbreviations
Safety
Reagents
You, the Employee
100
Non-Smartvue Refrigerator and Freezer temperatures are checked and recorded at this time interval.
What is daily as well as after any period longer than 15hrs?
100
SDS
What is the Safety Data Sheet
100
Gloves, Goggles, Masks, and Lab Coats
What are examples of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)?
100
TRUE/FALSE In clinical work, a reagent may be used after its expiration date in special circumstances.
What is False. A reagent may never be used after it has exceeded its manufacturer's expiration date.
100
TRUE/FALSE A technician may witness/lab check another technician if they are performing a method they both know how to do.
What is False. Only individuals who have trained specifically as a witness for that method may perform witnessing steps/lab check.
200
Thermal Cyclers are checked for temperature accuracy at these time intervals.
What is tested when originally placed into service and annually thereafter to check for temperature accuracy.
200
CAP
What is the College of American Pathologists
200
The NextGen assigned assembly location during an emergency building evacuation.
What is the hill behind NextGen?
200
This must be done when a reagent's storage condition goes out of range for more than 2 hours.
What is 1st time use validation?
200
The number of Continuing Education Credits required for each employee of GeneDx.
What is 12?
300
Calibration of our pipettes occurs at this time interval.
What is every 6 months?
300
R.O.A.D.
Read, Observe, Ask, Discover? The CAP inspection guidelines/methodology.
300
Locations of Fire Extinguishers in the NG lab.
6-1, 6-3, 6-6?
300
1 year
What is the maximum amount "life span" given for a solution or aliquot before it expires?
300
Copies of Academic Degrees or Transcripts, Licenses, Certifications, Descriptions of Duties, Records of Continued Eduction, Training and Experience, Work related accidents/incidents, and Dates of Employment are types of what.
What is a Personnel Record?
400
(Daily Double) Your responsibility if a piece of equipment is found to be defective or broken.
What is decontaminate the Item, label it appropriately, and place a ticket for the item to be evaluated for repair and/or replacement.
400
CLIA-88
What is the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment of 1988.
400
The location of the Biological Clean-up Kits and the Chemical Spill Kits?
6-1, 6-2?
400
Elements of a properly labeled reagent.
Content, Concentration, Received date, Opened or Prepared date, Expiration date, Storage Requirements, Initals of Preparer? Some of this information may be located in the barcode database.
400
If you don't understand an auditor's question, or it is phrased in a particular way that doesn't make sense, this is the first thing you should do.
What is ask them to rephrase the question.
500
Equipment performance records shall be maintained and readily available for this time frame.
What is the life span of the equipment plus two years thereafter (including electronic records)?
500
(Daily Double). HIPAA
What is the Heath Information Portability and Accountability Act.
500
Define R.A.C.E. and P.A.S.S.
What is Rescue, Alert, Confine, and Escape AND Pull, Aim, Squeeze, and Sweep.
500
This category of reagents are NOT tested against current lot. New lots are subject to documentation of satisfactory performance upon first use of the reagent only; not lot to lot comparisons.
What is critical exempt reagents? They are subject to first time use documentation/verification.
500
Direct observation of routine tests; Recording and reporting test results; Review of test results, QC, PT, and maintenance logs; Direct observation of instrument maintenance; Assessment of test performance through repeat or PT samples; Evaluation of problem solving skills
What are elements of competency assessment?