Lab Safety
What does PPE stand for?
Personal Protective Equipment
What does ETS stand for?
- Evacuated Tube System
What Butterfly Needles also known as?
- WIS (winged Infusion Sets)
Where on the slide in the cell Monolayer located?
- Near the Feathered Edge
What additive is used in Green Tubes?
- Heparin
Name 3 examples of Engineering controls?
- Sharps Container
- Needle Systems
- Self-Sheathing Needles
- Sharps with safety devices
- Hand Hygiene station
Name all the Information that is expected to be on the Specimen Label:
- Name (full)
- Date of Birth
- Medical Record Number (MRN)
- Date of Collection/ Time of Collection
- CPT Initials
What does SST and PST stand for? Name a tube as an example of each?
- SST: Serum Separator Tubes, Red Gray
- PST: Plasma Separator Tubes, Light Green
Name at least 4 characteristics of a good blood smear:
- Not touching sides/edges
- Smooth
- No Holes
- No Streaks
- No Irregularities
What is the one test Black Tubes are used for?
- ESR
When was OSH Act first implemented? When was it amended?
- 1970
- 1983
What are the two allergies that play a major part in Phlebotomy?
- Latex
- Adhesives
Name the at least two of the three most commonly used alternatives to the 70% Isopropyl Alcohol
- Iodine
- Chlorohexidine Gluconate
- Benzalkonium Chloride
What percent of a person's blood volume is produced each day?
- 1%
What additive is used in Yellow (non-Sterile) tubes? What lab test are these tubes used for?
- ACD
- HLA Typing
Name all the stages in the Cycle of Infection in order
- Infectious Agent
- Reservoir
- Portal of Exit
- Mode of Transmission
- Portal of Entry
- Susceptible Host
Name at least 6 Sites to avoid on a patient:
- Above IV Catheter
- Arm with AV Fistula or Shunt
- CVA Devices
- Arm on same side of Mastectomy
- Arm with Edema
- Arm with Scarring
- Arm with Hematoma
- Sclerosed Veins
- Tortuous Veins
- Thrombosed Veins
- Fragile Veins
- Phlebitic Veins
What size gauge needle has a Green Cap? A Yellow Cap? A Light Blue Cap?
- 21
- 20
- 23
Name the 3 types of Blood Donation and briefly describe them:
- Therapeutic Phlebotomy: Intentional removal of blood to lower RBC
- Donor Phlebotomy: Obtain Blood products for transfusion
- Autologus Phlebotomy: Donation for personal use
Name 6 Tests done within the Hematology Department:
- Differential
- Platelet Count
- H&H
- ESR
- CBC
- Red Blood Cell Indices
- Reticulocyte Rate
Name at least 5 Diseases/Infections that would cause the establishment of Contact Precautions:
- Wound Infections
- RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus)
- Viral Hemorrhagic Infection (Ebola)
- Enteric Infection (C.Diff)
- Skin Infection (MRSA)
- MDRO (Multi Drug Resistant Organism)
- Herpes Simplex
Name the 3 types of Consent and describe them:
- Informed: Patient has received full Information
- Expressed: Patient gives consent orally or written
- Implied: Patient action indicated consent
What is the additive within a STERILE Yellow tube considered to be? What is the name of the additive? What does it prevent?
- Immune response Inhibitor
- SPS
- Complement response and Phagocytosis
Name all Newborn Screening Tests that are required within the United States:
- CP
- Hypothyroidism
- PKU
- Galactosemia
- Biotinidase
- Sickle Cell Disease
Name ALL the tubes used within the Chemistry Department:
- Tan
- Gold
- Light Green
- Red (Glass)
- Red (Plastic)
- Orange
- Gray/Yellow
- Gray
- Royal Blue
- Green
- Green/ Gray
- Red/Gray