What Every Phlebotomist Should Know: Uncovering Errors from Laboratory Test Order to Report

Welcome to What Every Phlebotomist Should Know: Uncovering Errors

6.0 Contact Hours ($59.99): To understand how diagnostic testing errors occur, we will examine the journey of a laboratory order from the physician’s request to the final report. This includes exploring the process steps and activities involved in three key phases of testing: pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic. By tracing the entire workflow, from the initial order to the completed report, we will analyze each phase and identify where diagnostic errors are most likely to occur within the testing process.

This course includes the following

• Several instructional videos
• Quiz: 10-questions to test your knowledge and understanding of the material
• Challenge question to identify errors throughout the process
• Course assignment to practice your newly learned skill

Who should take this course

This course is designed for phlebotomists, laboratory technicians, and students.

Agenda

• Module 1: Introduction to the path of an analytic test order
• Module 2: Pre-Analytical phase
• Module 3: Analytical phase
• Module 4: Post-Analytical phase
• Module 5: Assignment

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course the learner will be able to perform the following:

1. Explain the pre-analytic, analytic and post-analytic path of a laboratory order
2. Summarize the stages where errors can occur throughout the laboratory testing process
3. Interpret the common types of errors within each stage 

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