Competency information

Details

Use of manual, semi-automated and automated equipment deployed in the bacteriology laboratory.

Considerations

  • Principles and scientific basis of automated analysers.
  • Point-of-care testing (POCT) in microbiology.
  • Principles and methods of laboratory investigations and clinical findings in testing bacteriological samples.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 2 Outcome Perform the range of laboratory techniques used in the workplace to investigate important bacterial infections, including bacterial susceptibility.