Laboratory Management Practice Questions

MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE • LABORATORY MANAGEMENT PRACTICE QUESTIONS • • • • • • • • • Leadership: a. Planning b. Organizing c. Directing d. Controlling User passwords should be: a. Shared with others b. Kept confidential c. Posted at each terminal d. Never changed Internal auditing: a. Plan b. Do c. Check d. Act Technical requirements: (1) Personnel (2) Internal audits (3) Reporting of results a. 1, 2 b. 2, 3 c. 1, 3 Example of an error that is obvious occurring at the interface between a healthcare worker and the patient: (1) Errors with data entry (2) Missing blood vessel during phlebotomy (3) Teamwork factors a. 1, 2 b. 2, 3 c. 1, 3 Patient misidentification: a. Preexamination or examination error b. Preexamination or postexamination error If the laboratory wants to determine the number of phlebotomists needed to provided ER coverage on Sunday nights during the 7-11 shift, which one of the decision-making procedures may prove the most useful? a. Probability analysis b. Linear programming c. Queuing theory d. Simulation Arrange the following control from the most effective to least: (1) Elimination (4) Administrative Control (2) PPE (5) Engineering Control (3) Substitution a. 1-2-3-4-5 b. 1-3-5-4-2 c. 5-4-3-1-2 Work practice controls: (1) Splash guards (2) Handwashing (3) Warning signage a. 1, 2 b. 2, 3 c. 1, 3 • • • • • • • • All of the following are an example of a barrier that physically separate the user from hazard, except: a. Splash guard b. Eye wash station c. Gloves d. Face shields Common decontamination agent: (1) 10% bleach (2) 10% H2O2 (3) Acetone a. 1, 2 b. 2, 3 c. 1, 3 What is empathy? a. Knowing your patient b. Acknowledging your patient’s pain Standard precautions state: a. Handle only known HBV-positive or HIV-positive specimens as infectious b. Personal protective equipment is required for only direct patient contact c. Blood and body fluid precautions must be observed for all patients’ blood and body fluid specimens d. Infectious specimens must be labeled with biohazard symbol All post-mortem procedures require adherence to: a. Isolation techniques b. Isolation precautions c. Standard precautions d. None of these The first step to take when attempting to repair electronic equipment is to: a. Check all electronic connections b. Turn instrument off and unplug it c. Reset all the printed circuit boards d. Review instrument manual When a person is receiving an electrical shock, all of the following should be done except: a. Pull the person away from the electrical source b. Turn off the circuit breaker c. Move the electrical source using a glass object d. Move the electrical source using a wood object Waste container for sharp materials like needles, syringe, and scalpel blades: a. Yellow b. Yellow with black band c. Red d. Orange Biodegradable wastes like leftover food, used cooking oil, fish entrails, scale, fins, fruits, vegetable peelings, rotten fruits, and vegetables: a. Orange b. Red c. Green d. Black 1 • • • • • • • • Non-biodegradable wastes like paper or paper products, bottles, and packaging materials: a. Orange b. Red c. Green d. Black Radioactive wastes or medical equipment contaminated or exposed in radioactive activity: a. Orange b. Red c. Green d. Black Pharmaceutical and chemical wastes: a. Yellow b. Yellow with a black band c. Red d. Orange Infectious and pathological wastes such as test strips, used beads or plates, used reaction pads or foils, used swabs, used gloves, used cord clamp, used plaster, used masks: a. Yellow b. Yellow with a black band c. Red d. Orange During the morning rush, your laboratory manager comes in the laboratory and starts explaining a new policy regarding vacation requests. Word spreads of the change throughout the day, and the message has changed somewhat. Several in the laboratory are upsent and complain to the laboratory manager.Which of the following actions is the most appropriate way to handle such a situation? a. Nothing should be changed, it was handled appropriately b. The manager should have posted the change on the bulletin board in the break room c. The manager should have announced the policy on each shift d. The manager should have discussed and distributed the policy at a laboratory meeting, or several laboratory meetings, so that all employees hears the policy from the manager A blood service facility duly authorized, whose main function is to collect blood from volunteer blood donors: a. Blood bank (BB) b. Blood center (BC) c. Blood collection unit (BCU) d. Blood station (BS) A blood service facility duly authorized, whose main function is storage, issuance, transport, and distribution of whole blood and packed red cells: a. Blood bank (BB) b. Blood center (BC) c. Blood collection unit (BCU) d. Blood station (BS) A non-hospital-based blood service facility whose main function is to process blood units into blood components and testing these units for 5 infections diseases markers: a. Blood bank (BB) b. Blood center (BC) c. Blood collection unit (BCU) d. Blood station (BS) • • • • • • • Water analysis except: a. Total coliform organisms b. Arsenic c. Chloride d. Potassium Educational arrangements such as curricular qualifications and teaching-learning requirements that take place in higher Educational Institutions (HEIs): - Doctoral degree, Master’s degree - Post-graduate Diploma/Certificate - Diplomate/fellowship program a. Formal learning b. Nonformal learning c. Informal learning d. None of these Learning that has been acquired in addition or alternatively to formal leaning which may be structured and made more flexible according to educational and training arrangements includes CPD accredited activities and selfdirected activities. a. Formal learning b. Nonformal learning c. Informal learning d. None of these Learning that occurs in daily life assess, throught the recognition, walidation and accreditation processes and which can contribute to a qualification. Sectors: - Government - Business/Private - Academe - Civil Society a. Formal learning b. Nonformal learning c. Informal learning d. None of these Supporting document for these CPD creditable activities: - Conference, seminar/workshop/colloquium - In service training, webinar a. Certificate of accreditation b. Certificate of attendance c. Certified copy of patent d. Copy of module/evaluation Respect the decisions of adults who have decision-making capacity. Moral rules or obligation: - Tell the truth - Respect the privacy of others - Protect confidential information - Obtain consent for interventions with patients a. Autonomy b. Beneficence c. Non-maleficence d. Justice Aspects of this principle: - Providing benefits - Balancing benefits and risks/harms a. Autonomy b. Beneficence c. Non-maleficence d. Justice 2 • • • Mary is an MLT working as a phlebotomist in a private laboratory. A woman is in with her 16-year-old daughter who has a requisition for FSH, LH, estradiol, and HCG. The daughter tells Mary that she is willing to have some of the tests on the requisition performed but not the CG. The mother shakes her head and reminds the daughter that the tetss are necessary for a diagnosis by the doctor. What should Mary do? a. Follow the request of the mother because she is the parent and responsible for the care of her underage child b. Follow the request of the daughter because she seems capable of making decisions on her own and there is no set age of consent c. In an effort to maintain consent, Mary should contact the patient’s physician d. Proceed with the venipuncture because the requisition itself is consent enough This principle holds that there is an obligation not to inflict on others. It is closely associated with the maxim primum non nocere (first do no harm). This principle supports the following rules: - Do not kill - Do not cause pain or suffering - Do not incapacitate - Do not cause offense a. Autonomy b. Beneficence c. Non-maleficence d. Justice This principle obliges us to equitably distribute benefits, risks, costs, and resources. The following rules are supported by this principle: to each person an equal share, according to need, effort, contribution, and merit. a. Autonomy b. Beneficence c. Non-maleficence d. Justice 3 4