CLINICAL LAB SCIENEC

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CONTENTS
Essential Tasks or Physical Requirements 12
Intellectual Requirements 13
Image Projected by Laboratory Professionals 14
Advances in the Laboratory for the Future 14
Personnel Certification 15
Offi cial Regulation of Medical Laboratories and Workers 16
Credentialing and Certifi cation of Medical Laboratory Technical Workers 17
Issues Related to Licensure 18
Duties of the Medical Laboratory Worker 19
Scope of Practice 21
Why Differentiate between CLS/MT and CLT/MLT? 21
Who Differentiates between CLS/MT and CLT/MLT? 22
Testing for Credentialing of Various Levels of Laboratory Workers 23
Summary 25
Review Questions 26
CHAPTER 2 Laboratory Personnel Credentialing
and Facility Accreditation 27
LEARNING OBJECTIVES 27
KEY TERMS 27
Introduction 28
Clinical and Anatomic Pathologist/Director 28
Doctor of Laboratory Medicine (D.L.M.) 30
Clinical Sciences Specialist 30
Laboratory Manager 31
Clinical Laboratory Scientist/Medical Technologist 31
Technician-Level Medical Laboratory Worker 32
Phlebotomists 32
Job Descriptions for Technologists and Technicians 32
Introduction to Accreditation for Educational Programs, Facilities,
and Personnel Programs 33
Educational Program Accreditation 34
Facility and Departmental Licensure and Accreditation 36
Personnel Certifi cation or Licensure 37
Disparities in Personnel Standards 38
Certifi cation, Registration, or Licensure of Personnel 39
Categories of Medical Laboratory Workers for Certification 40
Specialty Designation for Categories of Clinical Laboratory Scientists 41
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