Volume 37 Number 1 | February 2023 The Alpha Mu Tau Fraternity and ASCLS Education and Research Fund, Inc., support the advancement of medical laboratory professionals through scholarships for clinical laboratory science students. Applicants for all scholarships must be ASCLS members. Learn more about eligibility requirements and download the application at alphamutau.org. The application deadline…
Last chance to attend the 2023 ELMC2, new lab CE on Labucate.org, Ask Me Anything: A Day in the Life of a Laboratory Professional, and more. Last Chance to Attend the 2023 Emerging Laboratory Managers Collaborative Conference (ELMC2) January 20-21, 2023 | Virtual The Emerging Laboratory Managers Collaborative Conference (ELMC2) is designed specifically for laboratory…
Legislation Significant to Medical Laboratories, Introducing CDC OneLabTM, Register for the 2023 Emerging Laboratory Managers Collaborative Conference, Submit Award Nominations, and more. Two Pieces of Legislation Significant to Medical Laboratories Could Pass this Month Watch for Verifying Accurate, Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act and Saving Access to Laboratory Services Act (SALSA) As Congress wraps up…
Volume 36 Number 6 | December 2022 Kim Von Ahsen, MHA, MLS(ASCP)CM, SLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS President If you’ve had a chance to meet me or hear me speak about my career journey, you’ll know I managed a movie theater before I went into the laboratory profession. I loved working in the theater—endless popcorn and screening movies…
Volume 36 Number 6 | December 2022 Heather Herrington, DVM, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Ascending Professionals Forum Chair Let’s get this out of the way right from the very start—I’m a hypocrite. When I came up with the idea for this article, there was no doubt in my mind it was a subject that needed to be…
Volume 36 Number 6 | December 2022 Jeremiah Oh, MDxT(AAB), Developing Professionals Forum Secretary, ASCLS-Georgia Developing Professional Director During my time in my academic program, I’ve found that for many students such as myself, topics like patient safety or professional ethics can often come across as an abstract concept—an afterthought that sometimes takes a back…
Volume 36 Number 6 | December 2022 Miles Tompkins, MLT(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Board of Directors With the challenges that shortages bring to an already exhausted laboratory workforce, it can become easily justifiable for some facilities to grab anyone off the street who can hold a pipette to sit at a bench and put them to work.…
Volume 36 Number 6 | December 2022 Benjamin D. Galvan, MLS(ASCP), CIC, CPH, ASCLS Patient Safety Committee Member As a recent graduate of the Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center clinical laboratory science program in 2015, I was rapidly immersed into my first healthcare-related role in the microbiology department. Working in a large, academic…
Volume 36 Number 6 | December 2022 Diane Davis, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CMSCCMSLSCM, ASCLS-Maryland Board Member and ASCLS Region II Treasurer Accurate reference intervals for transgender patients significantly influence patient safety and are also an ethical obligation of medical laboratory professionals. First, a short vocabulary lesson from GLAAD to ensure that the following information is clear. Transgender…
Volume 36 Number 6 | December 2022 Carlo Ledesma, MS, MLS(ASCP)CMSHCMDLMCMQLSCM, MT(AMT), ASCLS Diversity Advocacy Council Councilor-at-Large In emergency medical situations involving an exsanguinating patient and the ABO type is unavailable, uncrossmatched group O RBCs is the axiom of clinical management until the appropriate ABO/Rh type and pre-transfusion testing is completed. The current guidelines in…