MT - CORRECT ANSWER Medical Technologist
4 year degree with 12 month clinical internship
Initials after your name if you pass the ASCP registry
CLS - CORRECT ANSWER Clinical Laboratory Scientist
4 year degree with 12 month clinical internship
Initials after your name if you pass the NCA registry
MLT - CORRECT ANSWER Medical Laboratory Technician
2 year degree with 6 month clinical internship
CLT - CORRECT ANSWER Clinical Laboratory Technician
2 year degree with 6 month clinical internship
Patients - CORRECT ANSWER Clients
Pisse Prophets - CORRECT ANSWER Started the earliest urine sample testing
Tasted urine to see if sugar was spilling into urine from blood
Smell, color, and clarity are all important factors in urine abnormalities
ASCP - CORRECT ANSWER The American Society of Clinical Pathologists
1928
Exam written by pathologists
The Registry - CORRECT ANSWER Certifies one in all laboratory skills, now called
the ASCP Board of Registry
Duties of the Board of Registry - CORRECT ANSWER 1) sets minimum skill
standards
2) minimum education levels
3) classifies levels of technicians and technologists
4) registers schools who offer training
, 5) issues certificates to those who pass exam and meet minimum qualifications
Standards - CORRECT ANSWER Essentials
NAACLS - CORRECT ANSWER National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory
Sciences
Responsible for updating essentials to keep pace with other changes in this field
NCA - CORRECT ANSWER National Certifying Agency
Exam written by medical technologists
AMT - CORRECT ANSWER American Medical Technologists
Exam written by MT's
HEW - CORRECT ANSWER Housing, Education, and Welfare
Civil state exams
MLS - CORRECT ANSWER Medical Laboratory Scientist
New title for MT's and CLS's
ASCLS merged with ASCP and will be a mixture of clinical laboratory scientists and
pathologists and other laboratory personnel
Functions of Blood - CORRECT ANSWER This fluid bathes the body
Carries nutrients to tissues
Carries wastes out of body
Contains cells that act in several functions
RBCs - CORRECT ANSWER erythrocytes
carry respiratory gases
WBCs - CORRECT ANSWER leukocytes
protect and defend from foreign substances
PLTs - CORRECT ANSWER thrombocytes
initial step in blood clot formation
CLIA '88 - CORRECT ANSWER Clinical laboratory improvement amendment