Objectives

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Reading Assignment

Chapter 1. Statutes and Rules Governing the Practice of Clinical Laboratory Personnel

Pp 1-12

• Identify licensees who may now interpret clinical laboratory test results.
• Specify clinical laboratory personnel, including the newest addition, who may consult in the areas of infection control and epidemiology and administer intradermal skin tests and vaccines.
• Define “direct supervision.”

Scope of practice of licensure             

• Distinguish between responsibilities that a laboratory director may or may not delegate to licensed supervisors.
• Specify how frequently supervisors must evaluate and document the performance of personnel doing testing.
• Identify the requirement when a supervisor delegates a task to a licensed technologist.
• Distinguish between responsibilities of licensed technologists and licensed technicians.

Responsibilities of clinical laboratory personnel

• Specify notifications that must be provided to the Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel.

Notifications

• Define negligence.

Violation of rules

Chapter 2. Continuing Education

Pp 12-16

• Identify how to satisfy the Board rule that licensees earn one contact hour on the laws and rules of the Board each renewal cycle.
• Specify how to surrender licensure in a category.
• Identify the number of days within which continuing education providers must report course completions to CE Broker.
• Indicate course completion reporting requirements to CE Broker for approved providers and national organizations.
• Review the procedure for renewing a clinical laboratory license.

Continuing education license renewal requirements

Chapter 3. Disciplinary Actions Against Clinical Laboratory Personnel

Pp 16-25

• List penalties that the Board may impose.
• Identify the only licensee whose license was revoked among 16 actual cases of disciplinary action.
• Specify the penalty for being unable to perform the duties of a clinical laboratory scientist by reason of use of alcohol, drugs, narcotics, or chemicals.
• Differentiate between disciplinary procedures that the Board may impose and citation violations.

Disciplinary guidelines

Chapter 4. Proficiency Testing

Pp 25-54

• Specify extent of proficiency testing (PT) participation required.
• Specify requirements for new enrollment and changes to enrollment.

• Identify requirements for unregulated analytes.
• Indicate the meaning of “Not Graded” on a PT program results report.
• Differentiate between primary and back-up testing methods with regard to PT testing.
• Specify actions that should be taken when reviewing PT results.
• Indicate the significance of clerical errors in PT testing.
• Identify CLIA program requirements for PT failures.
• Distinguish between unsatisfactory and unsuccessful PT participation/performance.
• Identify reinstatement options.
• Recognize the implications of PT test referral.
• State action the laboratory should take with PT samples when it routinely performs only screening/presumptive testing methods on patient samples and then refers the samples to a reference laboratory.
• Define PT referral.
• Distinguish between categories of sanctions for PT referral.
• Place a PT referral scenario in its correct category.
• Distinguish between confirmatory, distributive, and reflex testing.
• Identify action a laboratory should take when another laboratory has submitted PT samples to them for testing.

Proficiency testing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

• Specify sample size and frequency of PT testing.
• Identify consequences for a laboratory that is unsuccessful in PT performance on its main method for cholesterol.
• Specify enrollment by certificate/location requirements.

In general

• Specify requirements for PT sample handling/testing.
• State requirement as to when notification to CMS is required when a laboratory receives a PT sample from another laboratory for testing.
• Identify the sanction that is a statutory requirement for intentional PT referral.

Testing of proficiency testing samples

• Specify requirements for cytology screening PT.
• Identify PT passing score requirements.

Proficiency testing standards in general/ specialty/subspecialty requirements