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Phlebotomy Final Exam: 178 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2024/2025)
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Phlebotomy Final Exam: 178 Questions and Answers(Latest Update 2024/2025)
Certification - CORRECT ANSWERS - Issuance by an official body of a
certificate to a person stating that they have completed necessary requirements.
- Evidence that an individual has mastered fundamental competencies in a
particular technical area.
Licensure - CORRECT ANSWERS Legal permission by your state to engage in
a certain practice or occupation.
Reciprocity - CORRECT ANSWERS - A situation or relationship in which two
people or groups agree to do something similar for each other, to allow each other
to have the same rights.
etc. a reciprocal arrangement or relationship
Confidentiality - CORRECT ANSWERS Ability to keep patients health
information quite and to yourself.
Ethics - CORRECT ANSWERS Ethics is the moral duty to determine the
difference between right and wrong action and then to practice the right action.
Accountability - CORRECT ANSWERS - The quality or state of being
accountable.
- An obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's
actions .
Asepsis - CORRECT ANSWERS - The condition of being aseptic
- Sterile or Pathogen Free
Petechiae - CORRECT ANSWERS - Tiny spots that appear under the skin
- Are an indication of a broken or bruised capillary
- Are a sign of platelet defect or weak capillary walls
- May be a sign that the patient will bleed excessively from venipuncture site
,Phlebotomy Final Exam: 178 Questions and Answers
(Latest Update 2024/2025)
EMLA - CORRECT ANSWERS A eutectic (easily melted) mixture of local
anesthetics.
Plasma - CORRECT ANSWERS The top layer of clear liquid used for testing.
Also the fluid portion of blood in the living body.
Serum - CORRECT ANSWERS Normally a clear pale-yellow fluid that can be
separated from clotted blood specimen and has the same composition as plasma
except that it does not contain fibrinogen.
Hemostasis - CORRECT ANSWERS Process by which the body stops the
leakage of blood from the vascular system after injury; also known as the
coagulation process.
Antigen - CORRECT ANSWERS A large molecular weight substance that is 3
dimensional and usually a protein, that the body recognizes as a foreign object
consequently invoking an immune response
Tort - CORRECT ANSWERS Wrongful act (other than breach of contract)
committed against another person or property.
Leukemia - CORRECT ANSWERS A very serious disease in which the body
forms too many white blood cells.
Hematoma - CORRECT ANSWERS - Leakage of blood into the tissues
- Most common complication of Phlebotomy.
Latrogenic Anemia - CORRECT ANSWERS Anaemia resulting from multiple
phlebotomies, which is especially common in ICU patients.
CLIA - CORRECT ANSWERS Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988
(CLIA).
Enacted by congress to regulate all labs.
Specific guidelines include:
, Phlebotomy Final Exam: 178 Questions and Answers
(Latest Update 2024/2025)
- Quality Control
- Quality Assurance
- Record Keeping
- Personnel Qualifications
Divides labs into three levels (levels I, II, III)
JCAHO - CORRECT ANSWERS Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
- Enforces standards set by CLSI
- WORKS WITH CAP
OSHA - CORRECT ANSWERS Occupation Safety & Health Administration
- Federal Agency
- Assures every working person safe/healthful working condition.
- regulates standard precautions, toxic chemicals, fumes, lead, pesticides, noise
asbestos etc.
NCCLS - CORRECT ANSWERS - Stands for National Committee for Clinical
Laboratory Standards.
- Also known as the CLSI: Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute.
- Hospitals must follow federal and state guidelines.
CDC - CORRECT ANSWERS Center For Disease Control
Chemistry Department - CORRECT ANSWERS - Is the largest department
and performs tests such as glucose & cholesterol on plasma and serum.
- Is highly automated and performs individualized tests and panels such as Glucose,
BUN, sodium, potassium, cholesterol etc.
- The department sometimes has subsections such as toxicology and
immunoassays.
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