Title: Demonstrate quality assurance and quality control techniques.
Course: Medical Laboratory Technology I (14102-I) > Section: Maintaining Quality Assurance

Demonstration should include

- following local, state, and federal regulations required for the implementation of quality-assessment programs
- discussing professional organizations' implementation of regulations
- practicing quality control through the use of control samples, quality-control ranges, quality-control charts, equipment validation, and test validation
- practicing quality assurance through performance evaluation, reporting, policy and procedure review, and pre- and post-analytical variables.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How does quality assurance affect daily life in the medical laboratory?
- Why is quality assurance critical in the medical laboratory technology field?
- How are quality assurance and quality control different? How do they complement each other?
- What is the importance of troubleshooting failed quality-control results before releasing final patient results?