Policy
Before 10 PM or 2 hours before workday shift begins
What is the time frame that you must reach out to a supervisor if you will be out of work.
Order
Draw
Prep
Ship
Audit
What is the correct order of the TOUCH functions?
The specimen and requistion contain the exact same name and unique patient identifier.
What is Positive Specimen Identification?
This equipment is provided by LabCorp and must be worn by all PST working on the floor drawing or processing specimens.
What is PPE? Personal Protective Equiptment
The only acceptable contact to report to when you have an exposure to biohazard or specimen related injury?
Who is your Direct Supervisor?
Initiated 4 hours after the start of the shift
What is the ship-and-pack cycle?
This drink is consumed to determine the probability of a patient potentially having high amounts of sugar in the blood.
What is Glucola?
The Phlebotomist should always ask the patient this question prior to starting the blooddraw.
Have you ever had an adverse reactions while getting a blood draw?
When you are authorized to go for treatment for a specimen related injury.
What is Concentra?
When you do the pack each day these specimens are placed in a purple bag.
What are QuantiFERON (QTF)
When patients come in for these test yearly the paperwork that accompanies the bloodwork is also treated with care because it is also considered to be a specimen.
What is Biometric result entry form?
Prolonged use of this device during a blood collection procedures can lead to complications such as nerve damage, hematoma formation, and increased risk of infection.
What is a Tourniquet?
Call 911
Call Supervisor
Fill out incident Report
What to do if a patient has an accident/incident at the PSC?
Receipts-Manifest-Attachments
What is the proper document order when completing a pack?
A patient taking antibiotics, proton pump inhibitors, or bismuth preparations in the past two weeks has to have provider consent to move forward with this test.
What is the H. Pylori Urea Breath Test?
The following action steps MUST be completed safely and correctly:
1. Patient or account Representative present
2. Paperwork Completed, and specimen properly identified.
3.Check to see if the specimen is irreplaceable
4. Does the specimen need to be processed.
What are steps to handling/checking a drop-off properly?
NOT Allowed to be used in the PSC, and these are only allowed to be used on breaks/Lunch
What are Camera/Video and Cell Phones?
1. Select DRAW and find your patient2
2. Count and enter number of attachments
3. Perform the DRAW according to the order of the images on the screen
4. TOUCH the tubes you have collected.
5.Label the attachments and the patient samples.
What are the five important steps to the DRAW process?
This 24 hour urine collection can only be properly completed when the patient has bloodwork drawn to go with the urine.
What is a 24 hour Creatinine Clearance?
This is an approach to infection control that we perceive all human blood and certain body fluids are to be treated as known to be infectious for HIV, HCV and other blood borne pathogens.
What are Universal Precautions?