Consider The Operation Of The CDC
v Starting with a client entering …
o The receptionist gathers contact information from the client
and enters on the client record; if a client has visited before
the data is verified
o The receptionist queues the client to see one of the health
professionals working that day
o (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
o The client’s specimens are labeled
o 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