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Question

im doing my study guide and my teacher is awful and the test has stuff on it they we have yet to go over help please!

1. what is failure to exercise reasonable care improper or unskilled care, invasion of privacy, and mistreatment of a patient?

2. One of these actions will compromise the quality of a specimen? which one?

a. drawing electrolytes in an amber tube

b. mixing a serum separator tube

c. partially filling a liquid edta tube

d. placing a cold agglutinin in a heat pack

3. chilling will adversely affect quality of test results for which of the following analytes?

a. ammonia

b. lactic acid

c. pottasium

d. renin

4. the agency that requres healthcare organizations to have a QA program in place in order to be accredited is?

5. if a specimen was mislabled you are required to fill out an incident report what info would you fill out?

Answer 1

1.  A full EDTA tube should be submitted. Partially filled EDTA tubes affect the cells because EDTA is hypertonic (e.g. echinocytes will form in underfilled EDTA tubes). EDTA tubes should be more than half full.

2. pottasium- dont chill it

4. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

5. Please fill out as much of this form as possible

G/L in your future.