November Current EVENT due Nov. 1 & 2

Students:
Current events will be due either Nov. 1 (B) or 2 (A).  Spend time on this summary so that you can hand in quality work.  This will be a major grade.  Please see me if you have problems with your summary or any advice on the article or news source.  I will be handing out the grading rubrics again in class.

Ending of GRADING Period!

Before you can blink, the end of the grading period is fast approaching.  Please see me if you need to complete corrections or make-up work.  It is your responsibility to take care of this matter! 

My Hours:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday - Afterschool - 4:15-5:00
Tuesday, Friday morning - Before school - 8:00-8:50

Last Date to turn in corrections or make-up work will be OCTOBER 19, FRIDAY

A&P Powerpoints

Attention A&P students:
Please note that future A&P powerpoints for class will be taken from the following website.
http://www.iteachbio.com/Anatomy-Physiology/anat-phys.html
I suggest you bookmark the site to make sure you get the information you miss if you are absent! 

A sample current event is on the link below.  The requirements for this article and the sample current have been given to you.  Due dates are firm and are due by the dates listed in class, usually the first Friday of the month. See Mrs. Colclasure if you have questions.  This is a MAJOR grade!


http://mysite.cherokee.k12.ga.us/personal/todd_sharrock/site/Important%20Class%20Documents/1/Sample%20Current%20Event.pdf

Organic Compounds - Concept Map

A&P 9/26(A) & 9/27(B)

Chapter 2:  Basic Chemistry
Read:  22-30 & 36-47
Short Essay Questions:
1,3,4,7,8,10, 11 (define: radioactivity), 12,14,16,17,18,19-23, 25-29.

Check out the Anatomy and Physiology place website for the publisher's Internet resources.  You could get a lot of great study questions for all your A&P chapters.  We are using the 7th edition of the text, but the material is almost exactly the same!  Give it a try!


http://wps.aw.com/bc_marieb_ehap_8/25/6525/1670499.cw/index.html

N - E - X- T   TEST  is  
Chapter 2 on Tuesday, 10/2 (A) and Wednesday, 10/3 (B).

A&P FIRST TEST 9/20 (B) & 9/21(A)

A&P 9/13(A) & 9/14(B)

Complete labeling of anatomy man (anterior and posterior views). 
Identify abdominal divisions and quadrants.  See diagrams below. 
Complete the last page of the handout, in class if time permits. 
Otherwise - please complete for homework (due 9/17 or 9/18).

Health Science

Health Science 9/13 & 9/14

Identify consensus and group behaviors in 12 Angry Men.

Summarize film, review characters and identify positive or negative group behaviors.

Define parliamentary procedure.

Demonstrate parliamentary procedure used in a sample meeting.

Check out parliamentary procedure rap - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uffveXL2Ebk

Parliamentary Procedure demonstration - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-MDfoyHnm4&feature=related

(longer version) FBLA National champions

Parliamentary Procedure demonstration - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAuZBILmbMU

(shorter version) FFA chapter

TEST – Parliamentary Procedure (take home) – DUE A-day* Mon, 9/17 , B-day* Tues, 9/18

Anatomical Man - Labeled Regional TERMS

Regional Body Terms Specific to Body Areas

Regional Terms to Designate Specific Body Areas

Head and Neck
Anatomical Term	Common Name
Nasal	Nose
Oral	Mouth
Frontal	Forehead
Orbital	Eye
Buccal	Cheek
Mental	Chin
Otic	Ear
Cephalic	Head
Cervical	Neck
Occipital	Base of Skull

Thorax
Anatomical Term	Common Name
Acromial	Point of shoulder
Axillary	Armpit
Abdominal	Abdomen
Umbilical	Navel
Vertebral	Spinal column
Scapular	Shoulder blade
Dorsal	Back
Lumbar	Loin

Upper Extremities
Anatomical Term	Common Name
Brachial	Arm
Antebrachial	Forearm
Carpal	Wrist
Pollex	Thumb
Palmar	Palm
Manus	Hand
Digital	Fingers
Olecranal	Back of elbow

Pelvic Region
Anatomical Term	Common Name
Pelvic	Pelvis
Coxal	Hip
Sacral	Between hips
Gluteal	Buttock
Perineal	Between anus and genitals
Pubic	Genital region
Inguinal	Groin

Lower Extremities
Anatomical Term	Common Name
Femoral	Thigh
Patellar	Anterior knee
Popliteal	Back of knee
Crural	Leg
Sural	Calf
Peroneal	Side of leg
Tarsal	Ankle
Calcaneal	Heel
Digital	Toes
Hallux	Great toe
Plantar	Sole
Pedal	Foot

20 Little Known Facts About The Human Body

1. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
2. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
3. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
4. A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
5. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
6. Every person has a unique tongue print.
7. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
8. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
9. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
10. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
11. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
12. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
13. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
14. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
15. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)
16. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
17. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
18. Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
19. Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
20. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

Science Olympiad

Wonderful site with information & practice exams. 

http://www.wesnorman.com/homepage.htm

Science Olympiad

Hole's Anatomy and Physiology TEXTBOOK
Online Course Resources  - Lab Activities, Animations, Lecture Notes & Webquests.

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072919329/student_view0/course_tools.html

More to come!!

Practicum Testing and FINAL EXAM schedule!

EXAM schedule for Phlebotomy:

 

 

Exam 4 - (5/22) Tues., afterschooL OR (5/23) Wed., 8th period. OR  (5/24) Thurs., 1st period

   

LAB PRACTICAL EXAM  - (5/24) Thurs., 2nd period

 

 

FINAL EXAM  - ALL SENIORS (phlebotomy & pharmacy) -  May 29 (1st or 2nd)

 

If you need to see me, this will be my schedule

  Tuesday, afterschool

  Wednesday, 8 am & afterschool

  Thursday, 8 am & afterschool

  Friday, afterschool

 

NOTE:  I will not be at school on Friday morning - Spencer's graduation.

 

Phlebotomy STUDENTS

Please write or type/printout the Lab Practical Review.  Please turn in for a grade on Tuesday, 5/22.  This will be your QUIZ grade for the day.  The rest of the Lab Practical will be posted later today.  Keep up the good work...only a few more days left!  You are on your way to be RockStar Phlebotomists!

Lab Practical REVIEW

1.  Most efficient & economical ways of preventing a nosocomial infection is by:            ______________________

2.  How do you for patient identification?_______________________________________________________ 

________________________________________________________________________________________

3.  Describe correct procedure for washing hands before and after patient contact?

4.  What is used for routine cleaning of the venipunctures site. ________________________________
5.  Describe  proper position of the bevel of the needle once it is inserted into the vein is:

___________________________________________________________ 6.  List reason that may cause hemolysis of the specimen during collection of the  sample.

7.  List the steps for the performance of a routine venipunctures in the proper order?

 8.  List the correct order of the draw filling vacuum collection tubes?
9.  The most likely reason blood is NOT obtained from a clean stick on an elderly patient with 
                 apparently good veins is due to the: ________________________________________________
10.  Chemistry, hematology, and coagulation tests re-ordered on a three year old child with
                  good veins.  What is the best choice of equipment?  ___________________________________
11.  When drawing a multiple sample blood specimen, which of the following tests should be
                   collected first? blood culture, CBC, Electrolytes and glucose, coagulation studies
12.  Which analytes may be falsely increased due to the tourniquet being left  on too long?

________________________________________________________________

13.  During the performance of a venipunctures you accidentally stick yourself with the used     

                  needle.  What should bee done first? _______________________________________________

14.  MATCHING:

A.    Fills with blood

B.    Needle

C.    Holder

D.   Rubber sleeve

_____  Secures double-pointed needle
_____  Covers needle in between filling tubes
_____  Tube sealed with partial vacuum
_____  Used to collect multiple tubes of blood without blood leakage

  

15.  What color tube is used for the following tests. Blue

No additive   __________       Heparin   _______________               Sodium citrate  ___________

EDTA  __________                Sodium fluoride___________ 
Blood glucose which will be tested in 3 hours  _______________
STAT chemistries  _______________________                     Prothrombin time  ____________
Complete blood count  _______________      Blood typing (serum)  ________________

16.  How do  additives in blood collection tubes prevent blood from clotting?

__________________________________________________

17.  Which of the blood samples must be chilled immediately after collection?

__________________________________________________

18.  What is the FIRST vein of choice for the routine venipuncture?  ______________________

19.  Which of the tube stopper colors will result in a sample which contains clotting factors left in the fluid portion of the blood?  ___________________________________
20.  The microhematocrit tube is spun down.  When the tube is inspected there are three
                   layers that form.  What is contained in the “buffy coat” layer?  ______________________
21.  List potential sites for microcollection of blood samples?  ________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
22.  List the proper method for warming a heel prior to heel puncture is:

23.  The lancet used to perform capillary puncture on an infant’s heel must not exceed:  ____________
24.  Capillary punctures performed on the heel are generally performed to collect blood onto
                   filter paper for the Newborn Screening test.  LIST  the following proper 
                   procedure to follow for collection of the sample?
25.  If the alcohol is not allowed to dry before you collect blood from a capillary puncture, which
        of the following will occur?  

Phlebotomy Students - RESOURCES

ACC Phlebotomy has tons of helpful sites that can help you succeed in passing Phlebotomy!  You can do it!

http://www.austincc.edu/health/phb/resources.php

Influenza 1918

The link below will lead you to the PBS site which shows the Influenza 1918 video that was shown in class on Friday, May 11.  Please turn in video worksheet by Friday, May  18.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/influenza/

Bacteria poster due on May 11 -  Past due!  Losing 10 points per day!  MAJOR GRADE
Powerpoints due on May 15 - Past due!  Turn into my Turn in DRIVE at school.  Noted as Colclasure-HST.
FIRST aid packets due on May 18.  Please come in before or after school to use textbooks. 

 Please note on Wednesday, May 16 - before school I will be at a faculty meeting.  


Questions - please see me.

AWARDS NIGHT

Students:  
May 22 nd --   Senior Awards Night
May 24th  -- 9th‐11th  Awards Night


You will be notified if you will be receiving an award!  Wish I could give out more than 1 medal!!! So many well deserving students, who make my job GREAT!

Phlebotomy Practice TEST

Multiple Choice:        1 point each

1.      Phlebotomists may be required to perform all of the following EXCEPT:

A.     Capillary puncture

B.     Venipuncture

C.     Processing patient specimens

D.     Complicated analyses on blood and body fluids.

2.      The patient’s Bill of Rights was designed so that all members of the health care team recognize that the first responsibility is to:

A.     Protecting the hospital from litigation

B.     Providing the nurse with correct information

C.     Provide information about the identity and role of personnel involved in his or her care.

D.     Assure proper collection and analysis of lab specimens.

3.      Doctors in this type of health-care facility will be specialists in particular group of diseases:

A.     Primary care facility

B.     Secondary care facility

C.     Tertiary care facility

4.      The clinical laboratory personnel who possess a bachelor’s degree and performs routine to complex tests and procedures in the clinical laboratory is a/an:

A.     Laboratory director

B.     Medical Technologist (MT) (Clinical Laboratory Scientist)

C.     Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) (Clinical Laboratory technician)

D.     Phlebotomist

5.      The plane that divides the body into upper and lower portions is the:

A.     Sagittal plane

B.     Transverse plane

C.     Posterior plane

D.     Medial plane

6.      Which organ system provides communication in the body through sensations, thoughts, emotions and memories?

A.     Muscular

B.     Nervous

C.     Respiratory

D.     Digestive

7.      Which of the following is NOT on of the major groups of blood cells?

A.     Leukocytes

B.     Thrombocytes

C.     Synovialcytes

D.     Erythrocytes

8.      Which of the following cells have no nuclei when present in the circulating blood?

A.     Red blood cell (RBC)

B.     White blood cell (WBC)

C.     Megakarcyte

9.      Which side of the heart is responsible for pumping t oxygen rich blood to all parts of the body?

A.     Right

B.     Left

C.     Central

D.     Vena cava

10.  A very important step in preventing the spread of infection is:

A.     Gowning

B.     Hand washing

C.     Gloving

D.     Masking

11.  Which Transmission-Based Precaution?

A.     Contact Precautions

B.     Airborne precautions

C.     Droplet Precautions

12.  What is the additive contained in the purple/lavender topped tubes?

A.     Potassium oxalate or sodium fluoride

B.     Sodium Oxalate

C.     EDTA

D.     Sodium Heparin

13.  You have been sent to the floor to draw blood for hematology tests including a CBC and differential.  What color tube top should you draw?

A.     Light blue

B.     Purple/lavender

C.     Green

D.     Plain red

14.  When blood is drawn into a green-topped anticoagulated tube, the liquid portion of the specimen is most appropriately called:

A.     Heparinized plasma

B.     Plain serum

C.     EDTA plasma

D.     Citrated plasma

15.  You are sent to the floor to draw blood specimens.  You introduce yourself and state your mission.  The patient seems quite aware of the situation, but flatly refuses to allow the procedure.  What is your best course of action?

A.     Wait for a nurse to try to obtain the patient’s cooperation

B.     Restrain the patient and stick them anyway

C.     Leave the requisition slips and your phone number with the patient in case they change their mind

D.     Do not draw the patient, inform the nurse of the situation so the physician may be informed

16.  What is the recommended maximum amount of time a tourniquet can remin tied on the patient’s arm?

A.     30 seconds

B.     30-45 seconds

C.     1 minute

D.     3-5 minutes

Essay:                         2 points

17.  List two times during the work day when Phlebotomists should wash their hands.

_____________________________________________________  

_____________________________________________________   

Matching:                   5 points

18.  The following VACUTAINER tube types are indicated by the color of the stopper.  Match each to the additive it contains, if any.

____ i.       Lavender topped          a. potassium oxalate, sodium fluoride

____ ii.       Light blue topped          b. none

____ iii.      Green topped               c. sodium, lithium, or ammonium heparin

____ iv.      Plain red topped           d. sodium citrate

____ v.   Gray topped                 e. ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid DTA)

Matching:                   4 points

19.  Match each of the following VACUTAINER tube types with laboratory test(s) for which it would be useful.  Use the answers only one time.

____ i.       Lavender top                a.         STAT chemistries using plasma

____ ii.       Light blue top               b.         Hematology studies/CBC

____ iii.      Plain red top                 c.         Coagulation studies/PT & PTT

____ iv.      Green top                     d.         Serology & blood bank tests    

Multiple Choice:        1 point each

20.  Professional character attributes for phlebotomists include all of the following EXCEPT:

A.     Accountability for doing things right

B.     Dedication to high standards of performance

C.     Exceptional math skills

D.     Propensity for cleanliness

21.  Homeostasis refers to which of the following:

A.     Steady-state condition

B.     Chemical imbalance

C.     Anabolism

D.     Genetic make-up

22.  Identification of the patient is the most critical part of the phlebotomy procedure.  Which of the following is NOT REQUIRED when identifying a patient?

A.     Ask the patient to state their name

B.     Compare the armband to the requisition

C.     Ask the patient to state their doctor’s name

D.     Compare the name offered by the patient to the name on the requisition

23.  Serum and plasma differ in the following way:

A.     Serum has clotting factors, plasma does not

B.     Plasma has clotting factors serum does not

C.     Serum allows the sample to be used in tests requiring a whole blood sample

D.     Samples containing plasma cannot be used for tests requiring the use of whole blood

Fill in the Blank:        1 point each

24.  Blood alcohol levels must be drawn into a _________________ stoppered tube.

25.  The hemostatic process, also called coagulation, proceeds in four steps.  The step involved in the ultimate removal or dissolution of the fibrin clot once healing has occurred is called ____________________.