Competency information
Details
Interpret request forms and recommend the most appropriate investigation strategy to investigate:
- basic haematological disorders
- haemostasis
- patients for blood transfusion.
Considerations
- The repertoire, specimen requirements, referral patterns and storage, ordering, reference ranges and turnaround times of the methods used to investigate the specified range of disorders and requests listed.
- Principles, scientific basis and clinical application of commonly performed analytical procedures in haematology.
- Significance and importance of bottle and anticoagulant types.
- The major clinical users of the haematology and transfusion service for the following core investigations:
- full blood counts
- coagulation testing
- pre-transfusion testing and requests for blood components.
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. |
| # 6 | Outcome Use laboratory IT systems for handling, processing and storage of patient data. |