A urine specimen is received in the laboratory with the patient’s name, the date, and the time of collection on the lid of the container.  You should:

A client comes to the outpatient department for a urine drug screen.  You follow the protocol for collection but question whether the specimen is truly urine.  You then follow the procedure for urine verification and obtain the following results.  Which result causes you to reject the specimen?

In addition to a Chemical Hygiene Plan, the laboratory must provide employees access to ______ under the employee “right to know”.

Acidic urine specimens provide a stable environment for which of the following urine constituents?

Disposal methods of chemicals and other organic solvents include all of the following except:

Which of the following is exempt from decontamination by autoclaving or incineration before disposal?

Benefits of automated microscopy analyzers include all of the following except:

Which of the following is not considered potentially infectious and capable of disease transmission and is exempted from Universal Precautions protocols?

First morning specimens provide the ideal specimen for all of the following reasons except:

As the only technologist on the third shift, you receive a routine urine specimen that was collected at 0300 hours.  It is now 0400 hours.  You have been called to the emergency department for STAT blood draws on two trauma patients.  You decide to: