The ________ earnings of a salaried employee remain the same each pay period

Once a Medicare patient has been hospitalized for 60 consecutive days, during the next 30 days of hospitalization the patient is responsible for paying __________

Fill in the blank with correct word.

A resident calls the microbiology laboratory and wants to know how to collect a pleural fluid for aerobic culture. You tell him to

A) aspirate the fluid and place onto a sterile swab. B) collect the fluid in Cary-Blair preservative. C) aspirate the specimen and place in a sterile, screw-top container. D) aspirate the fluid, recap the needle, and send the syringe.