Specimen Collection and POC Testing 1 (5cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

- Students are aware of the principles of health care ethics and are committed to behave in accordance with them.
- Students can describe phases of clinical laboratory process.
- Students know how to collect and handle different clinical specimens in careful and safe manner and plan, implement and critically evaluate the specimen collection situations
- Students can describe the principles of patient safety. Students are able to answer for the safety and well-being of the client during the specimen collection.
- Students are aware of the impact of pre-analytical factors on the results of laboratory examinations when guiding clients for specimen collection, when collecting specimen and carrying out POC tests.
- Students are familiar with multi-cultural issues in the client work of social services and health care.
- Students know how to act in line with the principles of good service in client work and in collaboration with other professional groups.
- Students are aware of the quality management procedures of the laboratory and know ways of implementing quality management in clinical laboratory work.
- Students can justify their own work based on evidenced practice

Content

- biomedical laboratory scientist’s professional ethics and ethical principles
- clinical laboratory process and patient in clinical laboratory
- phlebotomy equipments and clinical specimen materials
- Patient’s rights and responsibilities and good patient care
- Patient’s safety; patient and specimen indentification, laboratory information systems and confidentiality agreement
- preanalytical factors and patient guidance to laboratory tests
- safety and quality aspects while collecting and handling the specimen
- patient, phlebotomist and environmental safety factors throughout the laboratory process
- venipuncture and finger stick
- POCtesting and quality management
- aseptics
- ergonomy
- how to deal with an anxious patient in laboratory
- evidence based practice throughout the clinical laboratory process