Quiz 8 - Ch 13 & 14 Flashcards
Where is POCT most often performed
Patients bedside
An advantage of POCT is
Fast TAT
Six months a after beginning employment, a phlebotomist is gift en a specimen by the POCT supervisor and asked to perform a glucose test and return the results to the supervisor. The employee is performing
Competency testing
QC is part of the
Examination phase
In addition to documenting patient and QC results, which of the following must be recorded when performing POCT
Reagent/kit expiration date
If a urine specimen for routine urinalysis can not be delivered to the laboratory within 2 hours, what should the phlebotomist do
Freeze the specimen
Which urine test requires a patient to collect a clean-catch midstream specimen
Culture and sensitivity
When obtaining a specimen for a group A strep test, swabbing which of the following areas could possible produce a false negative result
Tongue
What type of specimen is collected by inserting a flexible mini-top culture swab through the nose
Nasopharyngeal
Serum or plasm a must be separated from cells within how many minutes from collection `
120