Professional Practices and Safety in Healthcare MDLB 1221 Questions And Correct Answers 2024/25
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Professional Practices and Safety in Health
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Professional Practices And Safety In Health
Accreditation - Correct Answer is the longest established and most widely known process for the external evaluation of healthcare services.
Appearance - Correct Answer An image that portrays an individual, hopefully one that displays a trustworthy and respectable person in a health care sett...
Professional Practices and Safety in
Healthcare MDLB 1221 Questions And Correct
Answers 2024/25
Accreditation - Correct Answer is the longest established and most widely known
process for the external evaluation of healthcare services.
Appearance - Correct Answer An image that portrays an individual, hopefully one that
displays a trustworthy and respectable person in a health care setting. An MLAs
appearance should display cleanliness and confidence, often follows dress code.
Accountability - Correct Answer To be answerable for services that an individual is
trained, qualified, and hired to perform. An attitudinal and moral issue.
BCSLS - Correct Answer British Columbia Society of Laboratory Science; the
provincial professional association in BC for Medical Laboratory Techs and MLAs who
work in public and private medical labs throughout BC. They are responsible for
provincial certification in BC.
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - Correct Answer A constitutional document
that guarantees certain rights and freedoms to all Canadian citizens; always must be
considered before any federal, provincial, or local legislation is implemented.
Certification - Correct Answer The process in which an individual's training/education is
formally evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards. Usually
undertaken by a professional organization. This ensures that certified individuals meet
specified standards to ensure the safe, ethical practice of a professional service.
CEU - Correct Answer Continuing Education Units
Communication Skills - Correct Answer The means in which information is exchanged
or transmitted; one of the most important processes that takes place in the healthcare
system.
Competence - Correct Answer A standardized requirement for an individual to perform
a job properly, in a way that guarantee the standard of care that a facility provides. Can
be evaluated in regular intervals to ensure it is maintained.
Confidentiality - Correct Answer The discretion not to reveal any information about the
patient without his/her permission.
Consent - Correct Answer The process by which a patient allows a medical procedure
to occur, necessary to have the patient understand the procedure fully.
, Continuing Education - Correct Answer The maintenance and improvement of the
MLA's level of competence and field of knowledge. Through seminars/courses, reading
appropriate literature, sharing knowledge with colleagues.
CSMLS - Correct Answer Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science; the
national certifying body for medical laboratory technologists and assistants.
Dress code - Correct Answer For MLAs, this varies between facility but generally a
neat, clean uniform and/or lab coat.
Empathy - Correct Answer The ability to understand the feelings of another person
without experiencing their pain or distress. Similar to compassion, but less intense.
Honesty - Correct Answer In health care, honesty is needed to make sure the health
and lives of people are taken care of by a cooperative effort of a team. Restrict all
medical information provided to the patient to the instructions of a procedure.
Implied Consent - Correct Answer Permission by the patient to draw blood as implied
by their action rather than the spoken word (ie. laying out arm, pulling up sleeve, ect.)
Interpersonal Skills - Correct Answer Affect the way a MLA is perceived by others,
whether a patient or fellow health care professional.
FOIPP - Correct Answer Freedom of information and protection of privacy
Personal Hygiene - Correct Answer Important for appearance and for safety. Neat
clean hair (long hair pulled back), clean fingernails, makeup that is not overdone,
minimal jewelry.
Phlebotomy - Correct Answer To obtain blood for diagnostic purposes and to monitor
prescribed treatment, to remove blood for transfusions (by donation), or to remove
blood for therapeutic purposes. Obtained by venipuncture or capillary puncture.
PIPEDA - Correct Answer Personal information protection and electronic documents
act
Professionalism - Correct Answer The conduct and qualities that characterize a
professional person. (ie. empathy, honesty, safety, communication, respect, ect...)
Point-of-care Testing (POCT) - Correct Answer medical diagnostic testing performed
outside the clinical laboratory in close proximity to where the patient is receiving care.
Polycythemia - Correct Answer A disorder involving the overproduction of red blood
cells.
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