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Essential Skills Checklist

Please check each skill or procedure that your laboratory will be able to provide the MLT student as a cooperating laboratory or clinical affiliate.

First year MLT courses

PHLEBOTOMY

Specimen collection by venipuncture
Specimen collection by skin puncture
Specimen processing

UA
Routine QC of reagents and equipment
Safety
Routine urinalysis: physical, chemical, and microscopic (perform as many normal and
abnormals as possible)
Urine /Serum pregnancy tests
Occult blood on stool
Body fluids

CSF
Synovial fluid
Amniotic fluid
Seminal fluid
Other: (please specify)

HEMATOLOGY/COAGULATION
Peripheral smears: evaluation of WBC, RBC & platelet morphology
Polychromatic stain
Manual WBC count
Manual platelet count
Reticulocyte count
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
Operation, quality control, routine maintenance and basic troubleshooting for routine hematology analyzer
Operation, quality control, routine maintenance and basic troubleshooting for routine coagulation analyzer
Protime with INR
APTT
Fibrinogen
FDP or D-Dimer
Routine quality control of reagents and equipment
IMMUNOLOGY/SEROLOGY
Routine quality control of reagents and equipment
Safety
Agglutination
Titrations
Syphilis Testing
Other (please specify):
Second year MLT courses
BLOOD BANK
Method: tube gel
ABO, Rh including weak D
Antibody screen
Crossmatch, immediate spin & complete
Direct antiglobulin test
Issue of product for transfusion
Cord blood testing: ABO, Rh, DAT
Routine quality control of reagents and equipment
CHEMISTRY
Operation, quality control, routine maintenance and basic troubleshooting for routine chemistry analyzer
Operation, quality control, routine maintenance and basic troubleshooting for immunochemistry analyzer
Operation, quality control, routine maintenance and basic troubleshooting for routine blood gas analyzer
Routine quality control of reagents and equipment
MICROBIOLOGY
Routine QC of reagents and equipment
Safety

Gram stain (preparation, interpretation, and performance)
direct
from culture
Culture setup and interpretation (colony morphology, Gram stain, routine media & set up,
interpretation)
Blood
Urine
Stool
Respiratory (upper, lower)
Genital
CSF and other body fluids
Wound

Identification of the following organisms:


Staph aureus
Coagulase negative staph
S. pyogenes
S. agalactiae
E. faecalis
S. pneumoniae
E. coli
Kleb pneumo
Proteus mirabilis
Ent cloacae
Salmonella
Shigella
Bacillus (not anthracis)
Corynebacterium spp.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
H. influenza
Campylobacter jejuni
N. gonorrhoeae
N. meningitis

Automated identification (please list):
Antibiotic susceptibility testing
Automated panels
Kirby-Bauer
Other(please list)
Anaerobes (to what level)
collect and send
ID only
ID and suscp.
Parasitology (to what level)
collect and send
ID (wet mount, sedimentation, perm)
ID serologically
Mycology (to what level)
collect and send
ID (culture)
ID (serologically)

Mycobacteria (to what level)
collect and send
ID (cult)
ID and susc

Name of Clinical Laboratory:

Name of Lab Director:

Date:

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