CLS 242 - Applied Clinical Chemistry I

1. Discuss safety awareness as it relates to the clinical laboratory.
2. Identify the types of specimens used for analysis in the laboratory, including the methods of collection and handling.
3. State the importance of handling specimens as outlined in universal precautions procedures and the proper disposal of infectious waste.
4. Interpret patient test results using reference intervals.
5. Identify pre-analytic and analytic factors that can affect patient results: sample integrity, draw time, preservation, storage, age, gender, and ethnicity, diet nutritional status, fasting, post-prandial, exercise, position or posture, sample processing and identification, recording of results.
6. Explain the general principles, clinical applications and limitations of each analytical method.
7. Evaluate laboratory data.
8. Discuss scientific literature relevant to clinical medicine issues.
9. Correctly perform various laboratory mathematical calculations.
10. Define, calculate and graph statistical data for quality control and statistical analysis.
11. Determine significant errors in statistical data, such as shifts and trends.
12. Utilize medical databases and retrieve information.
13. Correctly perform various manual and automated analytical techniques within 2 standard deviations of target value.
14. Follow established laboratory protocol for repeating, verifying and reporting clinically significant values.
15. Communicate effectively in written and spoken English.
16. Follow written and verbal directions.
17. Project an image of professionalism in appearance and demeanor.