Safety, Hazards and QA Flashcards
7 Types of Safety Hazards
(a) Biologic
(b) Sharps
(c) Chemical
(d) Radioactive
(e) Electrical
(f) Fire/ explosive
(g) Physical
All health-care facilities have developed procedures to control and monitor infections occurring within their facilities. This is referred to as?
infection control
The chain of infection requires a continuous link between an?
infectious agent, a reservoir, a portal of exit, a means of transmission, a portal of entry, and a susceptible host.
Encompasses a range of activities that enable laboratories to achieve and maintain high levels of accuracy and proficiency. Guarantees quality.
Laboratory Quality Assurance
Overall process of guaranteeing quality patient care and is regulated throughout the total testing system.
Quality Assessment
All the laboratory’s policies, processes, procedures, and resources needed to achieve testing.
Quality system
In a clinical laboratory, a quality assessment program includes a testing control that is referred to as?
Quality Control (QC)
(3) Quality Control also encompasses Variables that are referred as the Cycle in the Laboratory which are?
Pre-examination variables
Examination variables
Post examination variables
Identify if what Cycle in the Laboratory is this process.
“specimen collection, handling, and storage”
Pre-examination variables
Identify if what Cycle in the Laboratory is this process.
“reagent and test performance, instrument calibration and maintenance, personnel requirements, and technical competence.”
Examination variables
Identify if what Cycle in the Laboratory is this process.
“reporting of results and interpretation”
Post examination variables
Original terms of preexamination, examination, and post examination?
pre-analytical, analytical, postanalytical
is the continual monitoring of the entire test process from test ordering and specimen collection through reporting and interpreting results.
Quality Assessment
(5) Quality Assessment is continual monitoring of the entire test process. These processes are?
(1) Procedure Manual
(2) Internal QC
(3) External QC
(4) Electronic Quality Control
(5) Proficiency Testing
Test Materials for their Accuracy, Precision and Reliability
Quality Control (QC)
Two types of QC?
Internal QC and External QC
(6) What are the Quality Assurance PRE-EXAMINATION ERRORS?
(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
(7) What are the Quality Assurance EXAMINATION ERRORS?
(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
(6) What are the Quality Assurance POST EXAMINATION ERRORS?
(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
Contains all the procedures performed in your section (CLSI guidelines)
Procedure Manual (dzuh)
The Number ONE error completed in the Lab
Patient Misidentification kay if mali nani daan sa Preexam… edi mali tanan process na
