2015-2017 Catalog

MOA-115 Clinical Laboratory Procedures

This lecture/laboratory course emphasizes the perfomance of waived tests as approved by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments. Waived testing methods include point of care testing in urinalysis, hematology, chemistry, immunology and microbiology. Topics in specimen processing, record keeping, CPT coding, laboratory infection control, quality assessment, quality control and reference ranges of tests performed also are considered. (6 contact hours)

Credits

4

Prerequisite

MRT-110 or BIO-115 or PHB-110

Department

Health Sciences