ML3102 - Laboratory Management and Quality Assurance
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences |
Broad overview of management issues pertaining to a Medical Laboratory. Human resource and cost management: Professional utilisation and development of workforce.Operational issues: Range of testing equipment available: modes of operation maintenance and servicing. Interfaces to laboratory information systems.Quality assurance/quality management: Sample identification and preparation. Quality control. Medico legal considerations. ISO guideline and NATA accreditation.
Learning Outcomes
- knowledge of issues of human and capital resource management for medical laboratories;
- knowledge of issues of pre, post and analytical quality assurance;
- understanding of NATA accreditation process for medical testing;
- working knowledge of laboratory information systems.
Graduate Qualities
- The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area.
| Prerequisites: | ML1101 |
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| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Ms Donna Rudd |
| Lecturer: | Dr Jeffrey Warner. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (70%); presentations (30%). |
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