MLT 257S - Practical Clinical Urinalysis and Body Fluids

3 Credit Hours

A full-time internship to be completed at an affiliated local or out of town hospital or clinic. Students will broaden and perfect their laboratory skills through active hands-on participation in the Urinalysis and Body Fluid of the laboratory. The emphasis of this course will be to have students perform manual and automated urinalysis testing along with any confirmatory testing if deemed necessary. Manual body fluid counts will be performed. Waived kit testing will be performed and evaluated. Written reports, case studies, review of current professional literature and attendance of conferences are required. As part of this course, students will be required to return to Southeast Tech campus the week of winter graduation. Students will participate in review of program course content, clinical findings and expectations, and registry preparation testing and activities. Students will present current clinical case studies and share clinical experience summaries with discussions.

Prerequisites: All MLT courses, general education courses and permission of Program chair.

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