So as I mentioned earlier, medical assistants can only partake in what's called CLIA wave tests. This is a list of the CLIA wave tests that we are allowed to perform. And so urine testing, urine testing is done in three ways. We can evaluate urine for a dipstick or a reagent strip. We can evaluate urine for pregnancy.
And then we can also obtain a urine specimen from our patients, send it to the lab in which they will examine the urine through a chemistry test. Certain blood tests fall under CLIA wave. These are examples here, hemoglobin, glucose, PT, INR, which has to do with monitoring how a patient's platelets work. Are they clotting?
If they were going in for surgery, would they be at risk for blood clots? Or... Is their blood too thin? Would they be at risk for bleeding out? We can test for that.
We can do cholesterol testing, fecal stool testing, saliva test, nasal smears, think COVID smears, influenza smears, vaginal smears, throat swabs, rapid strep testing, drug testing, mono testing. There are many tests that fall under what's called CLIA waived. Again, make sure that you research your scope of practice in the state in which you'll be at risk.
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