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This course module provides an overview of mechanisms for identifying compliance program risk areas and new threats. Through a case study, participants will explore the findings of a recent audit and current compliance enforcement activities in similar organizations. The course also includes a practical exercise involving a submission to the company’s corporate compliance hotline, examining various options and potential repercussions. This module is part of the ten-course Corporate Compliance Microlearning series, focusing on establishing a code of conduct and fostering an ethical organizational culture with accountability for all employees, including executives and managers.

This course reviews factors that need to be continually addressed and managed for healthcare professionals to continue to serve the diverse population of patients, social determinants of health, and the association with health and outcomes to provide culturally competent care.
The ability to provide culturally competent care and foster a workplace that incorporates shared values plays a vital role in the healthcare community.
This course is designed to help provide healthcare professionals with the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to provide culturally competent and responsive care to all patients.

The ability to provide culturally competent care and foster a workplace that incorporates shared values plays a vital role in the healthcare community. This series of courses is designed to help provide healthcare professionals with the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to provide culturally competent and responsive care to all patients. Topics covered in this first course include an overview of cultural competency, national standards, and Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services.

This course will provide the learner with an overview of the CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) requirements for laboratory maintenance records in addition to the CAP (College of American Pathologists) recommendations and FDA guidance as they pertain to record maintenance and retention. The FDA guidance will reference equipment records, procedures, maintenance, and repair.

IS200, Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response, reviews the Incident Command System (ICS), provides the context for ICS within initial response, and supports higher level ICS training. This course provides training on, and resources for, personnel who are likely to assume a supervisory position within ICS. The Emergency Management Institute developed its ICS courses collaboratively with:
National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
United States Fire Administration’s National Fire Programs Branch
Note: IS-200.c is an updated version of the IS-200 course. If you have successfully completed IS-200.b or IS-200.a, you may want to review the new version of the course. For credentialing purposes, the courses are equivalent.

The best time to learn how to handle a fire emergency is before you find yourself in a fire emergency.
Fire is a serious hazard in the clinical laboratory setting. Numerous electrical and chemical hazards can turn a small bench-top fire into a large uncontrolled blaze if lab personnel do not strictly adhere to fire safety guidance and best practices.
Fires in the clinical laboratory can be managed, and risk of fire minimized, by properly following fire safety guidelines, including compliance with OSHA rules and regulations. In this course, we review best practices for preventing and handling fires in the clinical laboratory setting. The types of fire extinguishers found in the laboratory, and proper technique for their use, is also covered. Proper knowledge of fire safety and fire extinguishers helps keep lab personnel safe and maintains a safe working environment.

Patient identification test strip labeling ensures positive patient identification through specimen collection, labeling, accessioning, processing, (e.g., aliquoting), storage, testing, and reporting of results. Importantly, review the laboratorys system (policy and practices) for ensuring positive patient identification from specimen collection through reporting of results; each clinical laboratory implements specific laboratory practices to ensure compliance with OSHA and CLIA regulations.
Proper labeling ensures consistency and quality of services, as well as compliance with OSHA and CLIA regulations. In this course we review good laboratory practices, regulatory and safety considerations, and implementation of best practices for patient identification test strip labeling.
This course also provides case study examples, which allow the student to demonstrate an understanding of the course objectives and learning targets.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires safety data sheets to be available to all employees of clinical laboratories. This requirement is detailed in OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), as well as in its Laboratory Safety Guidance document.
In this course we will discuss OSHA’s requirement of safety data sheets, the changes and updates made to safety data sheets as a result of the implementation of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS), the different sections of a safety data sheet, and how to use safety data sheets to ensure laboratory safety.

Most laboratory personnel are prepared to handle incidental spills or minor chemical exposures, yet laboratories may face many other types of emergencies such as power outages, acts of nature, or even intentional malicious acts. On completion of this course, you understand what the requirements are for emergency preparedness in a clinical laboratory.