QMS 3 - PATH OF WORKFLOW
3.3.4 Meet the Clinician
Illuminating the Path to ISO 15189 (SLMTA 3) e-Learning Course
- Overview
- Resources
PURPOSE:
Clinicians and laboratorians must work as a team to provide quality patient care. In this activity clinicians and laboratory personnel meet and share viewpoints with the goal of improving delivery of quality service to the patients.
KEY MESSAGES:
- Communication is the first step in building an effective patient care team.
- Both clinicians and laboratorians desire to provide excellent patient care.
- All members of the patient care team have specific requirements which must be met in order to provide the best patient care.
SELF ASSESSMENT:
Can you:
- Describe the concerns and requirements of other members on the patient care team?
- Appreciate the importance of ongoing teambuilding and communications between clinicians and laboratorians?
- Explain the benefits of a written Clinician Handbook?
Instructor(s)
Beatrice van der Puije
Ms. van der Puije helped redesign the classroom-based SLMTA 3 curriculum for on-line delivery and will serve as an instructor and facilitator of the e-learning course. Based in Ghana, Ms. van der Puije is a Public Health Program Manager at African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), a pan-African organisation strengthening medical laboratory networks and systems in Africa. Ms. van der Puije is a certified QMS Trainer, with a Master of Science Degree in Medical Immunology and Microbiology. She is a SLMTA master trainer and has trained numerous laboratorians in the past decade.