This medical department is associated with diagnostic and treatment procedures for bone and joint disorders.
What is orthopedics?
100
This is the word meaning moral standards and behaviors.
What is ethics?
100
Lungs are found in this body cavity.
What is the thoracic?
100
Hemoglobin content is assessed in the laboratory by analyzing these cells.
What are erythrocytes?
100
This type of isolation precautions would be in place for a patient who is colonized by microorganisms that are spread by hands.
What are contact precautions?
200
This type of diploma is required to enter most phlebotomy training programs.
What is a high school diploma or equivalent?
200
If a phlebotomist has a lawsuit filed against her, then he is this person in court.
What is the defendant?
200
Physiology is the study of this.
What are the processes of the body?
200
This happens to blood cells when the specimen is centrifuged.
What is they sink to the bottom.
200
These are insects that carry pathogens.
What are vectors?
300
Ambulatory care refers to health care services provided for these patients.
What are outpatients?
300
A patient must provide this to the laboratory before test results can be legally released.
What is written consent?
300
Explain what the supine position means.
What is lying face up on the back?
300
This is what could happen if a patient receives the wrong blood transfusion.
What is death?
300
Tuberculosis usually requires this type of isolation precaution.
What is airborne precautions?
400
A patient asks the phlebotomist "will this hurt?" This is the best response to this question.
What is it will hurt a little, but it should be over quickly.
400
This is when an incident report involving accidental HIV exposures should be reported.
What is immediately?
400
Describe the transverse plane.
What is a horizontal line dividing the body into a superior and inferior portion.
400
This ia a genetic disease where excessive bleeding occurs due to inadquate clotting factors.
What is hemophilia?
400
This is an object that an infectious microorganism migh live on.
What is fomite?
500
All clinical laboratories are regulated by this.
What is Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA)?
500
This agency maintains surveillance of health care workers' accident exposure.
What is the CDC?
500
This is how many lobes there are in two normal human lungs.
What is five?
500
This is the normal reference range for RBCs.
What is 4.5 to 5.5 million/mm3
500
Of the following, which is a commonly occuring pathogenic agent that causes nosocomial infections of the gastrointestinal tract--Haemophilus vaginalis, Vibrio cholerae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Bordetella pertussis.