ML3102 - Laboratory Management and Quality Assurance

Credit points:	03
Year:	2012
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

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 23-Aug-2012
Coordinator:	Ms Donna Rudd
Lecturer:	Assoc. Professor Jeffrey Warner.
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials 24 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (70%); presentations (30%).

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