Who Can Benefit from this Course of Study?
This course of study will help you meet Florida's special requirements for 24
hours of continuing education every 2 years. In order to renew a clinical
laboratory personnel license, these 24 hours must include a minimum of one
contact hour for each of the categories in which the individual is licensed.
This Course of Study can help to meet that requirement.
Please note, the 24 hours of continuing education must also include the
following, which are not currently offered in this Course of Study:
- One contact hour of continuing education on HIV/AIDS
- A Board approved 2-hour course relating to the prevention of medical
errors, which shall include root-cause analysis, error reduction and
prevention, and patient safety
- A one hour course on Florida laws and rules governing clinical laboratory
personnel (Or attend a public meeting of the full Board at which
disciplinary actions are addressed. A telephone conference call meeting of
the Board will not satisfy this requirement.)
- Directors and supervisors are required to obtain one contact hour of
continuing education in administration and supervision
This Course of Study is a combination of existing COLA products packaged to
meet the specific needs of laboratorians in states that have requirements for
continuing education as part of personnel license renewal.
You will learn:
- The importance of safety in the medical laboratory
- Proper procedures and good laboratory practices for performing waived
tests
- The registration process, requirements, and ways to document compliance
for a typical laboratory with regards to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement
Amendments of 1988 (CLIA'88)
- The lab director's responsibilities as spelled out in the CLIA regulations
- The process of calibration verification as detailed in the updated CLIA
requirements of 2003
- The process of Quality Assessment as well as the basics of quality systems
This Course of Study includes courses that have been approved for CME and
P.A.C.E.® credit.
There are no prerequisites for this Course of Study.
COLA is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel, Division of Medical Quality Assurance, at the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration as an educational provider for Florida medical laboratory professionals.
Number of Credits: Up to 13.5 CEUs or up to 7.5 CMEs.
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