Competency information

Details

Produce a basic interpretative report on haematological investigations.

Considerations

  • The information to be included in an interpretative report.
  • How to construct an interpretative report and the format required for presentation.
  • Limits of responsibility in the authorisation and issue of interpretative reports.
  • Clinical conditions that may require urgent action and how to instigate such action.
  • Normal and abnormal results and their significance to the clinical question or condition.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome Perform a range of laboratory techniques used in screening and investigating haematological disorders.
# 2 Outcome Perform the range of laboratory and point-of-care techniques (POCTs) used in the investigation of disorders of haemostasis.
# 3 Outcome Perform blood group serology in the context of pre-transfusion testing.
# 5 Outcome Apply the principles of internal quality control and external quality assessment and draw conclusions about assay performance.