scholarly journals Distance Education in the Clinical Laboratory Sciences: Part of the Solution to the Professional Labor Shortage

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Reed Brooks ◽  
Jodi Olmsted
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Labor Shortage ◽  
Health Care Education ◽  
Clinical Laboratory Science ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Laboratory Science ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
Faculty Time ◽  
Clinical Laboratory Sciences

The purpose of this paper is introducing research conducted about issues related to influences and barriers to the potential use of distance education for mitigating the clinical laboratory sciences labor shortage. Diagnostic careers such as those in the clinical laboratory sciences remain a mystery to many people because they do not have the same prominence or visibility associated with therapeutic careers. Clinical laboratory science courses often have both didactic and laboratory components. Coursework with laboratory components require additional faculty time for preparation. When health care education is offered in traditional university or college settings not affiliated with a teaching hospital or clinical setting, laboratory costs are higher due to purchasing supplies, reagents and media. Issues are further explored in a brief series of papers addressing them.  Using DE for delivering diagnostic clinical educational is a potential viable solution for addressing national diagnostic labor shortages.

The NPU format for clinical laboratory science reports regarding properties, units, and symbols (IUPAC Technical Report)

2014 ◽  
Vol 86 (12) ◽  
pp. 1923-1930
Author(s):  
Georges Férard ◽  
René Dybkaer
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Clinical Chemistry ◽  
International System ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Clinical Laboratory Science ◽  
Laboratory Science ◽  
Technical Report ◽  
System Of Units ◽  
Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Abstract The terminology of NPU (nomenclature for properties and units) aims at describing properties examined in clinical laboratories for a patient. It was originally jointly approved in 1966 by IUPAC and by the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) and covers multiple disciplines in the field of clinical laboratory sciences, including clinical allergology, clinical chemistry, clinical haematology, clinical immunology and blood banking, clinical microbiology, clinical pharmacology, molecular biology and genetics, reproduction and fertility, thrombosis and haemostasis, and toxicology. The NPU terminology adheres to international standards of metrology and of terminology, in particular the International System of Quantities (ISQ) and International System of Units (SI), the International Vocabulary of Metrology (VIM), and also to ‘An outline for a vocabulary of nominal properties and examinations – basic and general concepts and associated terms,’ recently prepared on behalf of the IFCC-IUPAC Committee-Subcommittee on Nomenclature for Properties and Units. The present document recalls the definitions of the concepts used to express a property of a patient, regarded as a system. The aim is to promote by this comprehensive summary the proper NPU terminology for reliable exchange of patient examination data. The use of this syntax and of SI units enables the translation of these descriptions into other languages without loss of meaning or accuracy. The NPU format is also well adapted for comparative and epidemiological studies. More information will be found in the upcoming 2nd edition of the Compendium of Terminology and Nomenclature of Properties in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, the IUPAC and IFCC ‘Silver Book’, and in the recently published ‘Properties and units in the clinical laboratory sciences. Part XXIII. The NPU terminology, principles, and implementation: A user’s guide (IUPAC Technical Report)’ (DOI:10.1351/PAC-REP-11-05-03).

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