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PPLP Sample Questions

1. Module Question: Consent to Treatment

Mary is an MLT working as a phlebotomist in a private laboratory. A woman comes in with her 16-year-old daughter who has a requisition for follicular stimulating hormone, luteinzing hormone (LH), estradiol and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). The daughter tells Mary that she is willing to have some of the tests on the requisition performed but not the CG. The mother shakes her head and reminds the daughter that the tests are necessary for a diagnosis by the doctor. What should Mary do?

  1. Follow the request of the mother because she is the parent and responsible for the care of her underage child.
  2. Follow the request of the daughter because she seems capable of making decisions on her own and there is no set age of consent.
  3. In an effort to maintain consent, Mary should contact the patient's physician.
  4. Proceed with the venipuncture because the requisition itself is consent enough.

Correct answer is

3.       In an effort to maintain consent, Mary should contact the patient's physician.

 

2. Module Question: Legislation Regulating MLTs


Which of the following is not a controlled act within the Regulatory Health Professions Act (RHPA)?

  1. Communicating with patients or their representatives about the diagnosis.
  2. Setting or casting a fracture of a bone or a dislocation of a joint.
  3. Weighing a patient.
  4. Prescribing a hearing aid.

Correct answer is

  1. Weighing a patient.

 


3. Module Question: Privacy and Confidentiality


Alice, an MLT who is working in a community laboratory, receives a phone call from a lawyer requesting copies of his client's test results. The lawyer says that his request is urgent as his client is to appear in court the next day. What should Alice do?

  1. Alice should release the results to the lawyer immediately.
  2. Alice should tell the lawyer that the laboratory can only release information to the physician who ordered the tests and direct him to the physician.
  3. Alice should refuse to release the results.
  4. Alice should ask the lawyer to submit his request in writing and upon receipt of the request, release the results.

Correct answer is

2.     Alice should tell the lawyer that the laboratory can only release information to the physician who ordered the tests and direct him to the physician.

 

4. Module Question: Professionalism and Collaboration

While assisting with a blood collection on a 26-year-old female patient who is unconscious, Heidi, an MLT, overhears Roger, one of the nurses assisting with the patient, making inappropriate sexual remarks about the patient's body and what he would like to do to it. What should Heidi do?

  1. Heidi should report what she has witnessed to the hospital and also file a report regarding Roger's comments with the College of Nurses.
  2. Heidi does not have to do anything, after all the patient is unconscious and therefore not aware of what is being said.
  3. Heidi should confront Roger and tell him his behaviour is inappropriate.
  4. Heidi should not do anything, everyone knows that Roger is a playboy and nothing is ever going to change that.

Correct answer is

1.      Heidi should report what she has witnessed to the hospital and also file a report regarding Roger's comments with the College of Nurses.

 

5. Module Question: Expectations of Practice - CMLTO Standards of Practice


The hospital where Mary works is planning to install Point of Care (POC) testing for several analytes in the emergency department; the lab will be responsible for validating and maintaining the instruments but the nursing staff will be doing the testing. The general consensus in the lab is that the nurses don't have the background required to perform POC testing and it would be better if it was assigned to the MLTs. Mary, a senior MLT, has been asked to train several of the nurses on how to use the equipment, she is reluctant because she agrees that testing should stay in the lab. What is the next step for Mary?

  1. Ask for the opportunity to present her concerns to upper management and to point out that the lab staff are already trained to use the equipment and will need little orientation before testing can start. This would be a cost saver for the hospital.
  2. Ask for the opportunity to present her concerns to upper management and cite improved patient care as a reason to assign POC testing to the laboratory.
  3. Look at the training assignment as an opportunity to collaborate with nursing staff and to help them understand the role of the Medical Laboratory Technologist in patient care.
  4. Ask for the training to be assigned to another MLT, someone who needs the experience more than she does.

Correct answer is

3.       Look at the training assignment as an opportunity to collaborate with nursing staff and to help them understand the role of the Medical Laboratory Technologist in patient care.

 

 

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