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.
Pathology Department, Medical Center of Louisiana, New Orleans, USA.
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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