WCLN: 2014 Updates – Completing the New Bioterrorism Proficiency Testing Result Form and Changes to the Rule-out Algorithms

Presenters:

• Erin Bowles, B.S., MT(ASCP), Clinical Laboratory Network Coordinator, Communicable Disease Division, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, Madison, WI
• Amanda Weiss, B.S., MT(ASCP), Program Coordinator, Proficiency Testing, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, Madison, WI

Description:

This audio conference presentation will introduce Sentinel Clinical Laboratories that participate in the WSLH PT Bioterrorism Preparedness Exercises (BPEs) to the new forms and reporting options that are available for the 2014 exercises.   All Sentinel Clinical Laboratories that participate in the BPEs are encouraged to attend this audio conference.   Participants will be walked through the new processes for submitting results, either electronically, or on paper. Rule-out algorithms will also be reviewed.

A certificate of participation will be granted to each participant based on 1.0 contact hours of instruction toward credit.

This program is co-sponsored by ASCLS-WI which is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. program.

As part of the new P.A.C.E. continuing education process, please go to the ASCLS CE Organizer web site to print your P.A.C.E. certificates. You will be asked for a code number to print the certificate. We will provide you this number during the teleconference.

Please note that the deadline for receiving P.A.C.E. education credit for this teleconference is April 9, 2015.

Materials:

 Presentation (3 MB)

 Handout (645 KB)

 PACE Evaluation