Staffing Crisis, What Can My Laboratory Do?

Presenter:

• Michael Baron, MS, Chemistry(ASCP), MBA, is the Executive Director of Laboratory Services at Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories in Milwaukee, WI.

Description of Session:

Maintaining adequate staffing levels of qualified employees is a challenge for many clinical and public health laboratories. It is a known fact that professional laboratory training programs are not graduating enough students to fill the numerous vacant laboratory positions that exist across the nation, and the need for certified laboratory professionals is growing.

Hiring people with science degrees who lack laboratory certification and providing training to help these new hires prepare to pass a certification exam and become certified has been a successful option for some laboratories. The speaker will share how he developed a training program that works for his laboratory.

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

This program is sponsored by the WSLH, which is an approved 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 search for the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene programs under the “Other P.A.C.E. Programs” tab on the ASCLS CE Organizer web site. You will be asked for a code number to print the certificate. We will provide you this number during the webinar.

Please note that the deadline for receiving P.A.C.E. education credit for this webinar is January 31st, 2025.

Materials:

• Staffing Crisis, What Can My Laboratory Do? – Presentation
• WCLN Webinar – Staffing Crisis, What Can My Laboratory Do?