Clinical Microbiology · stage 2 of 5

Starting work you can defend

The bench is where infectious material, unproven media and an unwritten workload all meet. By the end of this stage you can protect yourself and the people around you, work from current procedures against proven reagents, and put a specimen up on the right media under the right conditions.

Work through these in order

1. 1Choosing and wearing barrier protection at the benchSafety
2. 2Hand hygiene and personal cleanliness in the laboratorySafety
3. 3Spotting hazards and raising them promptlySafety
4. 4Escalating quality failures and safety incidentsReporting and Communication
5. 5Working safely with high-containment and select agentsSafety
6. 6Working from controlled, current procedure documentsQuality Assurance
7. 7Deciding the order of work once specimens reach the benchSpecimen Collection
8. 8Confirming the specimen in front of you belongs to the named patientPreparation and Testing
9. 9Deciding whether a specimen is worth testingPreparation and Testing
10. 10Holding instruments in a state you can trustEquipment and Resources
11. 11Verifying new media, reagents and instruments before useQuality Assurance
12. 12Preparing and proving reagents, media and control materialsPreparation and Testing
13. 13Choosing the media a specimen actually needsPreparation and Testing
14. 14Incubating cultures under the conditions the organism needsPreparation and Testing

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

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