Gram Stain Fundamentals – 2018

Presenter:

• Erin Bowles, BS, MT(ASCP), Clinical Laboratory Network Coordinator and State Training Coordinator, Communicable Disease Division , Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene

Description of Session:

This “hands-on” wet laboratory workshop for Wisconsin clinical laboratory professionals will review fundamental Gram stain principles.  The workshop will provide training in staining, reading, and reporting gram stains on clinical specimens.  The speaker will also discuss how to assess and assure the quality of the Gram stain as well as how to troubleshoot problems.  Attendees will have the opportunity to practice their staining skills on prepared slides of patient specimens, positive blood culture bottles, and organism isolates.

P.A.C.E. Information:

A certificate of participation will be granted to each participant based on 3.5 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 workshop.

Please note that the deadline for receiving P.A.C.E. education credit for this workshop is July 22, 2018.

Materials:

• Gram Stain Fundamentals – 2018 – Brochure