Scheduling
This type of lab is typically open 8-5, Monday through Friday.
What is a stand-alone outpatient clinic
This is the digital version of a patient's paper chart that can be shared across healthcare organizations.
What is an Electronic Health Record (EHR)?
The Joint Commission defines this as a formal approved description of how a governance or clinical process is carried out.
This organization holds labs accountablee for following their own written policies and procedures.
What is The Joint Commission?
This policy addresses what to do during disasters at the work location, including what to do with patients and medical gases.
What is the emergency/disaster policy?
These shifts often include differential pay, meaning staff earn more per hour.
What are nights and weekends?
What is decreased patient interaction or perceived detachment.
Each policy should include this, explaining why the policy exists.
Deviations from polices must include this documentation explaining why the policy was not followed.
What is documentation of the reason for deviation?
Seizures are common in the EDT lab and fall under this type of policy.
What is a patient emergency policy?
These technologist should not work alone until the gain indepedence.
In North Carolina, hospitals must keep adult patient records for this many years after discharge.
What is 11 years?
Accrediting bodies such as the organization require EDT labs to have up-to-date, evidence-based policies and procedures.
What is ABRET?
These organizations do not create your specific policies, but they enforce accountability for following them.
MSDS information helps staff know how to store substances, clean spills, and determine needed this.
What is PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)?
Montior watchers for this type of study are needed 24/7 because patients may be monitored for a week at a time.
What is Long-Term Monitoring (LTM)?
According to ACNS guidelines, this group must decide what portions of long-term monitoring data are clipped and saved if the full study is not kept.
Who are physicians?
This Policy outlines what to do when a patient stops breathing or loses cardiac function, often referred to as Code Blue.
What is code policy?
Effective, organized, and accessible policies and procedures make this statement about a lab.
This policy addresses who performs brain death studies and what report modifications are required.
What is the high acuity patient policy?
When creating an on-call schedule, labs must decide how often techs take call, if they miss work after being called in, and how this is compensated-often including this hourly payment for "carrying the pager"
What is $2-$3 per hour?
Machines used for EDT studies should have this security measure to protect patient information, especially during long-term studies.
What is password protection?
These are step-by-step "how-to statements that help new staff perform less common studies correctly.
What are procedures?
During a site visit, staff must know what their policies are, where they are located, and how to do this.
What is implement them?
Sedation policies must define who receives sedation, what is used, who administers it, and what is monitored because sedation can be this.
What is dangerous?