Clinical Chemistry · stage 4 of 6

Working the specimen

The bench techniques themselves — urine, body fluids, blood gases, separations, microscopy and amplification — plus what you do the moment an instrument or a container fails on you. You will be able to run the core chemistry workload and react correctly when a run goes wrong mid-stream.

Work through these in order

1. 1Reading urine by eye and by reagent stripPreparation and Testing CC-PT-33
2. 2Working through the urine sedimentPreparation and Testing CC-PT-38
3. 3Preparing slides that can actually be readPreparation and Testing CC-PT-10
4. 4Recognising what is in the field down the microscopePreparation and Testing CC-PT-4
5. 5Examining body fluid cells and the material around themPreparation and Testing CC-PT-22
6. 6Putting a number on what the microscope showsPreparation and Testing CC-PT-26
7. 7Handling and running blood gas specimensPreparation and Testing CC-PT-34
8. 8Separating a mixture, then measuring the partsPreparation and Testing CC-PT-25
9. 9Setting up amplification reactions without contaminating themPreparation and Testing CC-PT-14
10. 10First response when an instrument fails mid-runEquipment and Resources CC-ER-2
11. 11Containing and clearing a spillSafety CC-SA-9
12. 12Acting in the first minutes of a safety incidentSafety CC-SA-8

This reading order is MLTPrep’s own. To browse the same material filed against the competency areas instead, go back to the Clinical Chemistry study guide.

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