Project 1 BASIC FUNCTIONS OF A pages 16-19. Text: Chapel The purpose of this pro

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Project 1 BASIC FUNCTIONS OF A pages 16-19. Text: Chapel The purpose of this project is to provide opportunity to identify the basic functions of an actual oper- A hospital can be considered a large complex system made up of many subsystems. One subsystem. which we will focus on, is the laboratory where various clinical tests (blood.urinalysis, etc) are performed. This subsystem has all the characteristios of most systems. The following is a short description of how a typical hospital laboratory functions. After reading the description, answer the questions that follow. pecimens arrive in the lab via four principal routes. Doctors will send patients to the lab with crders for a test or series of tests to be performed. If the test can be performed at that time, a laboratory assistant or technician will perform the test. If the test cannot be performed, an appointment is made for the patient to return and an information pamphlet is given to the patient concerning the tests he or she will undergo. In some cases, "inpatient orders" are sent to the lab requesting a laboratory assistant to come to a patient's room in the hospital and obtain a specimen (blood, urine, etc.) In other cases, the specimen is taken by a nurse on the patient's floor and just the specimen is sent to the lab with an order form uesting various tests After a specimen arrives in the lab, a laboratory assistant reads the orders to determine which tests are to be performed. He or she may have to call requesting physicians because he or she cannot read their handwriting or to notify them if there will be an inordinate delay in obtaining the results of the tests. The assistant then obtains the needed supplies, eg, slides, chemicals, test tubes, etc. and readies any required equipment. Some tests are very simple while others are complex and require mul- tiple steps. The procedures are specified in department lab manuals. In many cases, the tests are au- tomated. specimen is simply placed in the test equipment and the results are read from various indicators on the machine, or printed out by the machine. A time and materials card is filled out for each test and forwarded to Central Accounting for billing and inventory control. The results of each test are checked against a "norm chart" to determine if the test indicates any abnormalities. The results are transcribed onto lab report forms. One copy of the lab report is sent to the requesting physician, one copy goes to the Chart Room to be placed in the patient's hospital file, and one copy is placed in the laboratory's own file. This more or less orderly process is often interrupted when a "stat" order is received. "Stats" are emergency orders which get the highest priority. Part A. List some of the overall functions of the laboratory system.

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Part a: Some of the overall functions of the laboratory system is:

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