STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 1. Apply  OSHA safety standards at all times

 2. Identify pre-analytical conditions that affect chemistry specimens and assess the suitability for analysis.

 3. Calculate problems for basic math, the metric system, and dilutions

 4. Perform manual dilutions and calculate the resulting concentration

 5. Analyze Levey-Jennings charts for shifts, trends or imprecision

 6. Select and demonstrate the use of appropriate laboratory measuring devices such manual pipets, automatic pipets,

    beakers, flasks, and graduated cylinders

 7. List a spectrophotometer’s major components, how to relate it’s readings to Beer’s Law and calculate the analyte’s concentration

 8. Discuss basic chemical theories and clinical applications for kidney and liver function test glucose, electrolytes, enzymes, lipids and hepatitis

 9. Identify normal and abnormal values for all chemistry tests discussed such as glucose, BUN, creatinine, electrolytes, bilirubin,

    total protein, albumin, cholesterol, and triglycerides

 10. Recognize and solve technical errors for chemistry procedures performed

 

 

 

 

 

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I. OSHA standards in the clinical laboratory

 II. Glassware and pipet use

 III. Reporting analytes using the metric system

 IV. Dilutions, reagent and control reconstitution

 V. Spectrophotometry and Beer’s Law

 VI. Carbohydrates and diabetes biochemical markers

 VII. Kidney function and biochemical markers

 VIII. Liver function, liver enzymes and liver function biochemical markers

 IX. Electrolytes

 X. Lipids

 XI. Specimen integrity, interfering substances