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56. Universal Precautions are:
  1. Guidelines designed to prevent transmission of infection from any source of body fluid, except sweat, in healthcare settings.
  2. Guidelines designed to prevent transmission of infection by blood and body fluids in healthcare settings.
  3. Guidelines designed to prevent transmission of infection by a known source of infection.
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57.
Phil the Medical Assistant accidentally stuck himself with a needle just used to draw a specimen for a CBC. The patient is a young nun, who assures him, “I don’t have anything you need to be worried about.” 

Phil the Medical Assistant squeezes the site to promote bleeding, washes his puncture site, applies a bit of antibiotic ointment and a bandage over the site, and promises himself to be much more careful. What (if anything) has Phil done wrong?
  1. Phil has not done anything wrong.
  2. Phil did everything wrong!
  3. Phil did not use tincture of iodine on his puncture site.
  4. Phil did not notify his supervisor or otherwise report the injury as the guidelines of his facility instruct.
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58. Phil the Medical Assistant has been notified that yet another of his finger sticks has been rejected by the lab. The lab tech tells him, “Dude, quit milking so much!” Phil is not sure what that means. Can you tell Phil what is causing rejection of his capillary collections from finger puncture?
  1. Phil, you are squeezing too hard and pulling the fingers toward the fingertip. It causes hemolysis and tissue fluid to be squeezed into the blood.
  2. Phil, you are scooping the blood with the capillary collection device, instead of letting it fill on its own. It’s causing hemolysis.
  3. Phil my man, don’t pester the lab techs so much; lay low and they will quit picking on your specimens.
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59. Which of the following drugs should NOT be used as a diuretic?

I. Albuterol
II. Acetazolamide
III. Mannitol
IV. Metolazone
  1. All of the above
  2. I only
  3. II, III and IV only
  4. I and II only
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60. The processes of correcting erroneous test results, calling critical test values, and reporting the final test results are all examples of processes that are completed during the _____________ phase of specimen examination.
  1. Preanalytical
  2. Analytical
  3. Postanalytical
  4. None of the above
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