CLINICAL LAB SCIENEC

Laboratory Personnel
Credentialing and
Facility Accreditation
CHAPTER 2
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this chapter, the reader will be able to:
• List the two types of
pathologists.
• Describe a Ph.D. scientist and
his or her role in the laboratory.
• Compare the duties of
cytotechnologists and
histotechnologists.
• Contrast the duties of
cytotechnologist and
histotechnologists with those
of medical laboratory workers.
• Differentiate between the
duties of the technician and the
technologist-level laboratory
professional.
• Compare the terms licensure,
certification, and professional
registration.
• Name the organizations chiefly
concerned with the education
of medical laboratory workers.
• Compare and contrast the
requirements for medical
laboratory technicians and
technologists.
• List the reasons for seeking
facility accreditation.
• Provide some of the components
necessary for credentialing of
medical laboratory workers.
• Discuss voluntary versus
involuntary processes in
licensure, accreditation, etc.
• List and discuss federal
regulation of medical
laboratories.
• Explain the licensure procedures
that states use to regulate
medical laboratories and provide
examples.
• Discuss why some professional
organizations might be against
personnel licensure for
laboratory workers.
KEY TERMS
Accreditation
American Board of Pathology
American Association for Clinical
Chemistry (AACC)
American Association for
Respiratory Care (AARC)
American Medical Technologists
(AMT)
American Society for Microbiology
(ASM)
American Society for Clinical
Pathology (ASCP)
Anatomic or clinical pathologist
Association of Surgical
Technologists (AST)
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
Certification
Clinical Laboratory Improvement
Act of 1967 (CLIA 67)
Clinical Laboratory Improvement
Amendments of 1988
(CLIA 88)
Clinical Laboratory Management
Association (CLMA)
College of American Pathologists
(CAP)
Commission on Accreditation of
Allied Health Education Programs
(CAAHEP)
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