Healthcare Setting Flashcards
Also called venipuncture. Means drawing or removing blood from the circulatory system through a cut or puncture to obtain an sample for analysis and diagnosis.
Phlebotomy
Ancient art of bloodletting
Phlebotomy: Phlebo, which means vein. Tomy which means to make an incision.
Practice dates back 3500 years to early Egyptian hieroglyphs.
To rid the body of excess fluids believed to be infected.
What are the most common phlebotomy practices today?
Blood extraction for donation, testing of the substances contained within the blood, and other medical uses.
How do you positively identify a patient?
Asking them to state and spell their full name and provide their date of birth.
What is HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Passed in 1996.
Requires providers to get written permission before disclosing healthcare info to anyone outside of the provider team.
What is PHI?
The Protected Health Information. Any individually identifiable health info that is transmitted or stored electronically.
Safeguarded and info includes but is not limited to:
Treatments
Test results
Medications
Procedures
Appt times
Appt. Dates
The best information exchange happens when info is:
SENT—-RECEIVED—PROCESSED—UNDERSTOOD
What is the oldest watchdog group in healthcare facility oversight? Why was it formed?
The Joint Commission. Was formed solely to look out for patients and establish standards and practices of operations in all healthcare offerings to the public.
Program screening focuses of quality care, patient safety and continuous pre-analytical and post-analytical processes, and over sites to Point-of-Care Testing (POCT).
What is CLSI?
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute.
Global non-profit org. That develops standards using representatives taken directly from the fields they oversee.
Phleb programs approved with CLSI include:
Program approval
Certification Exam questions
Standard of care based on CLSI standards
CLSI mission statement is: To develop clinical and laboratory proactive and promote their use worldwide.
Quality Control Documentaion
Equipment Check Forms or QC checklists- ensure the machines are inspected for performance and operation compliance at time intervals specific to the equipment and clinical application.
Incident Reports- forms that record and tack internal issues. Identifies everyone involved, the problems and the actions taken to correct the issue.
Risk Management- “loss of property or injury’
Ethical behavior
Entails conforming to a standard of right and wrong to avoid harming the patient.
Ethics breaches will not get a fine or jail time from the local jurisdiction, but can result in dismissal or revocation of certification or licensure.
Under the patient’s bill or rights….
they can always know what tests are being performed and decline medical treatment. If they refuse care, report this to your supervisor. DO NOT ever give patients results or explain what the tests check for as you are not medically qualified.
Types of consent?
Informed Consent
Expressed Consent
Implied consent
HIV Testing Consent - prob don’t need to know for test
Parental Consent for Minors
Informed Consent
A competent person gives voluntary permission for a medical procedure after receiving adequate information about the rish of the procedure’s mentors and consequences.
Given by competent person after informed.