Competency information
Details
Use automated instrumentation (modular systems, elementary robotics and automated immunoassay analysers) in your training laboratory, which incorporates the following techniques:
- ion selective electrodes
- spectrophotometry
- immunoassay
- enzymology
- plus one other from:
- fluorimetry
- nephelometry/turbidimetry.
Considerations
- Scientific basis of the following techniques: spectrophotometry, osmometry, ion selective electrodes, enzymology, immunochemical techniques, electrophoresis, chromatography and solid phase chemistry.
- The biological and statistical basis of biological variation, reference values and action limits.
- Use of calibration and control materials.
- The quality management process that ensures the correct location and storage of documentation and specimens at each stage of the process.
- The design, operation and performance of automated analytical platforms, including random access, modular, robotics, etc.
- Principles and practice of internal quality control and external quality assessment.
- Common analytical interferences caused by contamination, interferences, age of sample, etc.
- Performance of analyses in accordance with appropriate standard operating procedure.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 2 | Outcome Perform a range of laboratory and point-of-care techniques (POCTs) used in the workplace to investigate major organ function. |
| # 3 | Outcome Apply the principles of internal quality control and external quality assessment and draw conclusions about assay performance. |