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:

The technologist receives an unlabeled urine specimen in the laboratory; the technologist should promptly:

The patient is a 3-month-old infant with a possible bladder infection.  The best method of urine collection for routine urinalysis testing and culture is:

If used correctly, personal protective equipment (PPE) protects the health care worker from bloodborne pathogens from all of the following types of exposures except:

Automation of body fluid analysis is greatly beneficial in the clinical laboratory.  However, these instruments have a downside, which is:

All reagent strip reading instruments use __________________________ to interpret the color formed on each test pad.

External quality assessment is a means to measure the:

The ability to resolve discrepant test results in the laboratory is an example of: