Exam 45: Orientation to the Lab

Which of the following is used to measure the large amounts of liquids necessary for reagents?

Which of the following is included in the guidelines for Standard Precautions?

The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 had an impact on physician's office laboratories in which way?

Which of the following is designed to be lowered into a drop of immersion oil placed directly above the prepared specimen under examination?

A magnifying lens that magnifies an image ten times is called a(n) ________ lens.

Sammy is a 6-year-old patient who needs to have blood drawn for testing. He is obviously anxious about the procedure, and his mother appears to be just as upset as Sammy is. Which of the following approaches should you take to reassure Sammy and his mother?

A quality ________ program is designed to monitor the quality of the patient care that a medical laboratory provides and helps to ensure the safety of laboratory workers.

The ________ in a POL is generally used to separate whole blood samples into blood components or to prepare urine samples for examination by spinning the specimens at high speed.

Number 4 on the figure of the microscope is the ________.

Which laboratory tests examine blood, urine, sputum, reproductive fluids, and fluids from wounds to identify the presence of pathogenic organisms?

The medical assistant is usually responsible for taking ________ to be sure that the POL never runs out of supplies and equipment.

Which laboratory test uses samples of whole blood to identify problems with the count, size, or shape of blood cells that could indicate disease?

An optical microscope that uses two lenses to magnify the image created by the condensed light is a(n) ________ microscope.

-Number 6 on this microscope is the ____.

Below the oculars are the ________, which contain another magnifying lens.

Number 11 on the figure of the microscope is the ________, which is a diaphragm that regulates the amount of light that illuminates the specimen.

A foreign object that is visible through a microscope, but is unrelated to the specimen and may be misinterpreted when the specimen is examined, is a(n) ____.

A quality ________ program is a component of a quality assurance program. Its focus is to ensure accuracy in test results through careful monitoring of test procedures.

Mrs. Casanello had a breast biopsy last Friday. She calls Wednesday afternoon and asks if the results are back yet. The results came in Wednesday morning, and you know that the results were good: there is no malignancy. What should you tell Mrs. Casanello?

Number 7 on the figure of the microscope are the ________; two are dry, and the third is lowered into a drop of oil placed directly over the specimen.