6.01 Safety and Quality control

The patient is given a bracelet with a bar code , the laboratory technician asks the patient her name and birthday. A sticker with the same printed bar code is then placed on the patient's specimen. These steps are taken in order to:

• improve patient safety.

• reduce patient waiting time.

• save money.

• increase the speed of record keeping.

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment, the federal government regulates many aspects of laboratory operation, including:

• the training employees receive and quality of instruments used to analyze samples.

• the training employees receive and use at least two patient identifiers, such as name and date of birth.

• making sure labels with at least two patient identifiers, such as name and record number.

• making sure labels with at least two patient identifiers, such as name and date of birth.

The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments passed in 1988:

• monitor patient identifiers on labels.

• developed technical standards and laboratory practice guidelines.

• restrict laboratory testing

• regulate laboratory sites that test only non-human specimens.

Healthcare workers and the general public are protected from the spread of infectious disease by treating specimens as:

• industrial waste.

• biological hazards

• recyclables.

• trash

What is the best method for assuring accurate diagnostic test results?

• Calibrate the equipment as often as funds allow.

• Follow the test's standard operating procedure.

• Manage the test environment.

• Test in laboratories only.

What tool would a doctor use to evaluate a blood test report to determine whether or not a patient's results are normal?

• biopsy

• rapid diagnostic test technologies

• standard operating procedure

• reference range

Laboratory specimens are labeled with which patient identifiers?

• Patient name and room number

• Doctor and Patient name

• Patient name and address

• Patient name and date of birth

What process is used to separate blood cells from serum before testing?

• centrifugation

• culture

• SOP

• urinalysis

The "normal" range is the same for all patients:

• true

• false

A patient was just told that he has cancer. What medical term will be used by the doctor to document these positive test results?

• diagnosis

• prognosis

• meiosis

• mitosis