Safety, Hazards and QA

Question 1

7 Types of Safety Hazards

Answer 1

(a) Biologic
(b) Sharps
(c) Chemical
(d) Radioactive
(e) Electrical
(f) Fire/ explosive
(g) Physical

Question 2

All health-care facilities have developed procedures to control and monitor infections occurring within their facilities. This is referred to as?

Answer 2

infection control

Question 3

The chain of infection requires a continuous link between an?

Answer 3

infectious agent, a reservoir, a portal of exit, a means of transmission, a portal of entry, and a susceptible host.

Question 4

Encompasses a range of activities that enable laboratories to achieve and maintain high levels of accuracy and proficiency. Guarantees quality.

Answer 4

Laboratory Quality Assurance

Question 5

Overall process of guaranteeing quality patient care and is regulated throughout the total testing system.

Answer 5

Quality Assessment

Question 6

All the laboratory’s policies, processes, procedures, and resources needed to achieve testing.

Answer 6

Quality system

Question 7

In a clinical laboratory, a quality assessment program includes a testing control that is referred to as?

Answer 7

Quality Control (QC)

Question 8

(3) Quality Control also encompasses Variables that are referred as the Cycle in the Laboratory which are?

Answer 8

Pre-examination variables
Examination variables
Post examination variables

Question 9

Identify if what Cycle in the Laboratory is this process.
“specimen collection, handling, and storage”

Answer 9

Pre-examination variables

Question 10

Identify if what Cycle in the Laboratory is this process.
“reagent and test performance, instrument calibration and maintenance, personnel requirements, and technical competence.”

Answer 10

Examination variables

Question 11

Identify if what Cycle in the Laboratory is this process.
“reporting of results and interpretation”

Answer 11

Post examination variables

Question 12

Original terms of preexamination, examination, and post examination?

Answer 12

pre-analytical, analytical, postanalytical

Question 13

is the continual monitoring of the entire test process from test ordering and specimen collection through reporting and interpreting results.

Answer 13

Quality Assessment

Question 14

(5) Quality Assessment is continual monitoring of the entire test process. These processes are?

Answer 14

(1) Procedure Manual
(2) Internal QC
(3) External QC
(4) Electronic Quality Control
(5) Proficiency Testing

Question 15

Test Materials for their Accuracy, Precision and Reliability

Answer 15

Quality Control (QC)

Question 16

Two types of QC?

Answer 16

Internal QC and External QC

Question 17

(6) What are the Quality Assurance PRE-EXAMINATION ERRORS?

Answer 17

(1) Patient Misidentification
(2) Wrong Test Ordered
(3) Incorrect Urine Specimen
(4) Insufficient urine specimen type collected
(5) Insufficient urine volume
(6) Incorrect Storage or Preservation of Urine

Question 18

(7) What are the Quality Assurance EXAMINATION ERRORS?

Answer 18

(1) Sample Misidentification
(2) Erroneous Instrument Calibration
(3) Reagent Deterioration (remember, it can lead to false negative result)
(4) Poor Testing Technique
(5) Instrument Malfunction
(6) Interfering Substance Present
(7) Misinterpretation of QC data

Question 18

(6) What are the Quality Assurance POST EXAMINATION ERRORS?

Answer 18

(1) poor hand washing
(2) transcription error
(3) poor quality of instrument printer
(4) failure to send report
(5) failure to call critical values
(6) inability to identify interfering substances

Question 19

Contains all the procedures performed in your section (CLSI guidelines)

Answer 19

Procedure Manual (dzuh)

Question 20

The Number ONE error completed in the Lab

Answer 20

Patient Misidentification kay if mali nani daan sa Preexam… edi mali tanan process na