Laboratory Management

PODC

5:19 AM

PODC stands for Planning, Organizing, Directing, and Controlling. These methods are useful in the management of the laboratory. First Planning, plan and think and analyze to have a strong and steady foundation for your laboratory. Second Organizing, organize your thoughts for easy understanding of your plan. After you Direct your workers, disseminate the tasks very well. Then Controlling, process of checking on the priorities done or established.

Laboratory Management

What is Scalar Principle?

5:19 AM

A classic management rule where each subordinate reports directly to his senior person and not any higher on the management chain. I think this concept or principle has really a huge advantage since the employee only report to one person I think it prevents confusion to the employee since different bosses have different ideas and mindset, second I think it’s also less hassle to the employee since he should only see one person. These advantages can lead to a successful management of a laboratory or management.

Laboratory Management

Good Manager? Yaaa or Naaah?

5:18 AM

A well-trained manager is confident in his role and has the ability to motivate staffers to perform to the best of their abilities. Small work environments require cohesive teamwork and cooperation, and effective managers can elicit top performance from employees through motivation. Different types of motivation can be achieved through positive feedback, performance reviews and efficient conflict-resolution techniques. Some of the characteristics of a good manager are the following:
  Pleasant Appearance
  Personality style
  Energy, drive and ambition

Laboratory Management

Communication Barriers

5:16 AM

There are many barriers to communication and these may occur at any stage in the communication process. Barriers may lead to your message becoming distorted and you therefore risk wasting both time and/or money by causing confusion and misunderstanding.  Effective communication involves overcoming these barriers and conveying a clear and concise message. Some of the barriers tackled in the discussion are:
   Structural – organization’s design and bureaucratic patterns
   Semantics – the branch of communication science that studies aspects of words and messages
   Technical- defect in the equipment, environment, or in the medium
   People – individual differences or races
   Outcome -  closely tied to the acceptance of the message by the receiver

Laboratory Management

Quality Control and Quality Assurance

5:16 AM

When a diagnostic test is performed in the medical laboratory, the outcome of the test is a result. The result may be a patient result or it may be a quality control result. The result may be quantitative or qualitative or semi-quantitative. Quality control results are used to validate whether the instrument is operating within pre-defined specifications, inferring that patient test results are reliable. Once the test system is validated, patient results can then be used for diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment planning. 

 For example, when a patient’s serum is assayed for potassium, the test result tells us how much potassium is present in the blood. This result is then used by the physician to determine whether the patient has a low, normal or high potassium.

The maintenance of a quality management system is crucial to a laboratory for providing the correct test results every time. Some important elements of quality assurance are: SOPs (standard operation procedure), documentation, quality control samples, EQAS (external quality assessment scheme).

Laboratory Management

Patient Identification

5:15 AM

Patient identification is important especially in the field of our profession, it allows the MT to recognize the samples to avoid confusion, this topic is crucial and the most important step in the whole process. For us to deliver the result we should know first who’s gonna be tested and who is the real patient to avoid discrepancies and to avoid misdiagnosed cases. To overcome these we should ask the patient’s name first if the patient naman has a severe case the nurse will place a identification band and we can easily recognize if the patient assigned to us is really that patient.

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