Subject code
HCE
Course Number
159
Course Title
MEDICAL LABORATORY ASSISTING II
Semester Offered
Spring
Prerequisite
Activity
No
Course Fee(s)
Yes
Fee Amount
200.00
Description
This course includes classroom, laboratory, and clinical experience designed to continue the preparation of the student to enter the health profession as a laboratory assistant. Emphasis is on health care reform, reimbursement, cost analysis, coding, credentialing, accreditation, laboratory regulations, and regulatory agencies. It also includes application of pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical principles, infection control, laboratory safety, recognition of acceptable quality control, quality management principles, phlebotomy principles, and water requirements.