HLTH-8106 Laboratory Assistant

Prerequisites None
Corequisites HLTH 8010A  Previous or Concurrent
Learn about proper specimen collection, cataloging, and preparation needed for specimen analysis. Understand how to process clinical specimens for distribution to appropriate laboratory departments, e.g. blood bank, chemistry, hematology, and microbiology. Topics include safety, quality assurance, and quality control. You will practice laboratory safety procedures while learning Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) waived procedures commonly performed in the laboratory. Course work will combine remote from home reat-time lectures and in-person laboratory practice. Students can access Canvas at My Macomb. Text required.

Contact Hours: 80
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1. Discuss the basic organization and operations of the clinical laboratory including the uses and advantages of computer information systems, automation, and point-of-care testing in the clinical laboratory. Discuss the characteristics of successful professional employer/employee relationships. Relate various safety regulating agencies and regulations to the actions taken by hospitals and laboratories to maintain a safe work environment and state how these regulations affect the operations of the various clinical laboratory departments including hematology, the blood bank, urinalysis, chemistry, and microbiology.

1. The reasons why laboratory tests are ordered.
2. How specimens are analyzed.
3. Regarding the types of medical laboratories and their personnel:
   1. Organization and function of medical laboratories.
   2. Educational credentials of various personnel who work in laboratories.
   3. Necessary attributes required of the laboratory professional.
4. Identifying and using laboratory requisitions and reports with proper documentation and confidentiality.
5. Laboratory safety: Chemical, Blood and Body fluid, Person Protective Equipment (PPE)
6. Laboratory testing methods: policies and procedures
7. Specimen: collection, testing and reporting quality assurance and quality control.
8. Patient registration, phone etiquette and professionalism

• Virtual Lecture.
• Online resources.
• Laboratory practice.

Workbook for Laboratory and Diagnostic Testing in Ambulatory Care, 4th Edition by Marti Garrels, MSA, MT (ASCP), CMA (AAMA). ISBN # 978-0323-5322-42