Assessing competence in finding and reporting abnormal morphologic features while scanning peripheral blood smears.
OBJECTIVE
To develop a competency assessment tool to determine if technologists are detecting and reporting clinically significant findings on blood smears and to identify if proficiency improves through education using a video presentation.


METHODS
Combination of nonequivalent pretest-post test control group and modified time-series design.


METHODS
A large medical center in Southern Louisiana.


METHODS
All shifts of technologists working in the Core Hematology and Special Hematology Laboratories. This sample is a nonprobability sample of convenience.


METHODS
A thirty-five minute videotape on the standardization of RBC morphology.


METHODS
Develop a method for measuring competency of technologists who perform scans of peripheral blood smears as part of the automated white blood count differential process.
Leach
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AP
Pathology Department, Medical Center of Louisiana, New Orleans, USA.
Haun
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D001773:Blood Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000473:pathology*; D004909:Erythrocyte Indices; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000473:pathology; D006403:Hematologic Tests / Q000592:standards*; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D011361:Professional Competence