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    Levels of Profession Codes & Conduct

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    The document discusses professional codes of conduct and ethics for medical laboratory technicians. It outlines 14 major codes that technicians should follow, including placing patient well-being above personal interests, maintaining confidentiality, treating patients and colleagues with respect, and avoiding substance abuse. It also discusses laboratory policies regarding working hours, testing ranges, specimen collection procedures, and managing workload capacity. The overall purpose is to establish standards to ensure technicians work responsibly and laboratories operate reliably and effectively.

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    Levels of Profession Codes & Conduct

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    The document discusses professional codes of conduct and ethics for medical laboratory technicians. It outlines 14 major codes that technicians should follow, including placing patient well-being above personal interests, maintaining confidentiality, treating patients and colleagues with respect, and avoiding substance abuse. It also discusses laboratory policies regarding working hours, testing ranges, specimen collection procedures, and managing workload capacity. The overall purpose is to establish standards to ensure technicians work responsibly and laboratories operate reliably and effectively.

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    CODES OF CONDUNT IN A LAB

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    The document discusses professional codes of conduct and ethics for medical laboratory technicians. It outlines 14 major codes that technicians should follow, including placing patient well-being above personal interests, maintaining confidentiality, treating patients and colleagues with respect, and avoiding substance abuse. It also discusses laboratory policies regarding working hours, testing ranges, specimen collection procedures, and managing workload capacity. The overall purpose is to establish standards to ensure technicians work responsibly and laboratories operate reliably and effectively.

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    Levels of Profession Codes & Conduct

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    Shadreck Kachembwe phiri
    The document discusses professional codes of conduct and ethics for medical laboratory technicians. It outlines 14 major codes that technicians should follow, including placing patient well-being above personal interests, maintaining confidentiality, treating patients and colleagues with respect, and avoiding substance abuse. It also discusses laboratory policies regarding working hours, testing ranges, specimen collection procedures, and managing workload capacity. The overall purpose is to establish standards to ensure technicians work responsibly and laboratories operate reliably and effectively.

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    Professional code of

    conduct and ethics


    The code includes those attitudes and practices which
    characterize a responsible medical laboratory
    technician and which are necessary to ensure that a
    person works up to the level of a recognized
    standard.
    Above all, a code of Professional conduct can upkeep
    our motivation and remind us that the medical
    laboratory profession is primarily dedicated to
    the service of the sick and the promotion of good
    health care
    Major codes of professional conduct are
    enumerated below:
    1. Place the well - being and service of the sick above your own
    interests.
    2. Be loyal to your medical laboratory profession by maintaining
    high standards of work and by improving your professional skills
    and knowledge.
    3. Work scientifically and with complete honesty.,
    4. Do not misuse your professional skills or knowledge for personal
    gain.
    5 Never take any thing from your place of work that does not belong
    to you.
    6. Do not disclose to a patient or any unauthorized person the
    results of your investigation.
    7. Treat your results and your patient’s information with strict
    confidentiality.
    8. Respect colleagues and work in harmony.
    9. Be sympathetic and considerate to the sick and their relatives.
    10. Promote health care and the prevention and control of
    disease.
    11. Follow safety precautions and know how to apply first aid.
    (See chapter five)
    12. Do not consume alcohol or any other abusive substances
    during working hours or when on emergency standby.
    13. Use equipment and laboratory wares correctly and with care.
    14. Do not waste reagents or other laboratory supplies.
    Laboratory Policies
    Laboratory policies are those decisions, which are
    taken in consultation with other medical staff to
    enable a laboratory to operate reliably and
    effectively in harmony with other departments.
    SLIPTA
    Assessment
    A. Laboratory hour and emergency work
    As far as possible there should be definite laboratory
    working hours. In peripheral laboratories, it is often
    more difficult to maintain working hours.
    This is because of large outpatient flow and the
    emergency nature of much of the work. Out side of
    normal working hours, each laboratory should
    organize a system for testing urgent specimens.
    Only those investigations that are essential for the
    immediate care and assessment of a patient should be
    requested urgently
    B. Range of tests to be performed and those to be
    referred to higher level
    • Range of test to be performed depend on:
    .. The number of staff available;
    .. The availability of material resources;
    .. The types of health institutions (hospital or health
    center).
    • Referral of specimens (when necessary).
    Example, specimens for HIV detection and water
    samples for bacteriological analysis.
    C. Collection of laboratory specimen
    1. The specimen containers should be clearly labeled
    with the patients name, identification number, date of
    collection and time of collection.
    2. A fully completed, request form should accompany
    each specimen with the detail mentioned above
    1. The specimen containers must be clean and leak proof
    and also sterile when necessary.
    2. Special collecting trays or boxes must be used and they
    must able to with stand repeated autoclaving or
    disinfection.
    3. All specimens must be carried up right with fitted
    plugs.
    4. Request forms should be kept separate from the
    specimens to prevent contamination.
    5. Enough amount of specimen should be collected to
    perform the intended laboratory test (s).
    6. Specimens that are suspected or containing dangerous
    pathogens, must be labeled as “Dangerous or highly
    infectious” and handled with special precautions.
    D. Workload capacity of a laboratory
    When the amount of work requested is beyond the
    capabilities of a laboratory, testing of specimens
    become unreliable and safety measure tend to be
    ignored.
    On the other hand, too little work can also lead to
    unreliable test results due to lack of concentration
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