Call for Nominations for National Positions | CLS Journal Seeks Manuscripts from DCLS Perspective | CLEC 2025 Early Registration Discount Ends Today | Unlock Your Leadership Potential at ELMC2 | Save the Dates for 2025 Events | and More Call for Nominations for National Positions Nominations Due January 15 The Nominations Committee is seeking qualified members…
Nathan Bullock, MHA, MLS(ASCP)CM, Assistant Professor and Laboratory Manager at University Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, shares why he’s so passionate about attending the Clinical Laboratory Educators Conference (CLEC) and why he hopes you’ll join him there. CLEC 2025 will be held March 6-8 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. Attend in-person…
The 2025 CLEC Steering Committee is excited to announce the 2025 Clinical Laboratory Educators Conference (CLEC) Opening Keynote will feature Saundra McGuire, PhD, from Louisiana State University, and her presentation, “Teach Clinical Laboratory Students How to Learn: Metacognition is the Key!” on Thursday, March 6, at 12:30 pm Eastern. This interactive keynote address will demonstrate…
Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Pat Tille, PhD, MLS(ASCP), AHI(AMT), FACSc, ASCLS President Leadership. What does that mean, and how does one navigate the relationship and expectations of others in a member-driven organization such as the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)? As a member of ASCLS since 1992, several strategic actions…
Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Instilling Values that Ensure Patient Safety Every Step of the Way Larissa Todd, MLS (ASCP)CM, ASCLS Patient Safety Committee While the workings of the laboratory may seem distant from the patient experience, it’s essential to recognize that patients are ultimately the end users of laboratory services. Ensuring patient…
Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Sarah Bergbower, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Today Volunteer Contributor A 32-year-old G4 P3003 presents for a regular obstetric visit at 28 weeks gestation. A point-of-care urine dipstick was performed on a freshly voided sample with the results of interest shown in Table 1. Results were not discussed with the…
Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 A Medical Laboratorian’s Experience in Hospital Vs. Reference Laboratories Jin Heo, MLS(ASCP)CM, CLT(NY), ASCLS Ascending Professionals Forum Councilor Andrew Samon, MLS(ASCP)MB, ASCLS Ascending Professionals Forum Councilor Hello, we are Andrew and Jin, two laboratory professionals who started our professional careers in either a reference or hospital laboratory and…
Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Heather R. Parks, MS, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Today Volunteer Contributor Or shall I say, many, many phones. And phone calls. While brainstorming about patient safety, I thought back to times when I (gasp!) have made mistakes in the lab. Usually, I did not hit save on the computer, I…
Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Kristen L. Smith, PhD, D(ABMM) Amanda Suchanek, PhD Our role as medical laboratory science professionals is to provide information that clinicians can use to guide treatment of their patients. This directive is intimately tied to patient safety. From developing the test menu to the final interpretation of test…
Volume 38 Number 6 | December 2024 Kamal Smith, MBA, CSSGB, MLS(ASCP), ASCLS Patient Safety Committee Having joined the clinical laboratory science profession around a decade ago, our key performance indicators were safe and quality results, which still remains our top indicators to this day. From quality controls (QCs) to quality assurance (QA), the word…