Ch. 38 Regulatory Guidelines in the Medical Laboratory questions with correct answers

An unsafe work environment and work practices can threaten what? - Answer The emotional and wok practices of the health care worker, as well as the patient. Medical Asepsis - Answer also known as infection control, consists of procedures and practices that health care professionals use to prevent the spred of infection. Bloodborne - Answer via the blood What are the 7 isolation categories and who issued them? - Answer Strict isolation, respiratory isolation, protective isolation, enteric precautions, wound and skin precautions, discharge precautions, and blood precautions. Issued by the CDC for patients with infectious diseases and recommended the guidelines known as Universal Precautions. CLIA '88 - Answer Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 What do CLIA '88 and OSHA do together with the CDC? - Answer regulate the safety of patients and health care workers. What is the purpose of CLIA '88? - Answer to safeguard the public by regulating all testing of specimens taken from the human body. What is the purpose of OSHA? - Answer to require employers to ensure employee safety in regard to occupational exposure to potentially harmful substances.