Consider The Operation Of The CDC
Starting with a client entering …
- The receptionist gathers contact information from the client and enters on the client record; if a client has visited before the data is verified
- The receptionist queues the client to see one of the health professionals working that day
- (After waiting long enough to read last year’s STD Weekly) the client sees the health professional who fills out a chart with a brief medical history and orders the tests to be run
- The client’s specimens are labeled
- At the end of the day the specimens for each test are grouped and compared against a manifest listing all of the tests of that type ordered that day and sent out