ed quiz 7

One ASCLS P.A.C.E. unit represents

1 contact hour

For certification maintenance of the MLS credential, how many continuing education hours in blood banking are required over a three year period?

2

How many hours of continuing education in the content area of safety is needed over a three-year period to maintain the MLS(ASCP) credential?

2

How many total hours of continuing education over a three-year period is needed to maintain the MLS(ASCP) credential?

36

Which professional organization provides the P.A.C.E (Professional Access to Continuing Education) system for documenting CE?

ASCLS

Which organization uses continuing education as a means for renewing certification?

ASCP-BOC

Which of the following organizations requires laboratories to have continuing education programs for all laboratory personnel?

CAP

List the three national agencies that require documentation of continuing education for laboratory personnel that are listed in the chapter by Beck and LeGrys.

CLIA '88, CAP, and ASCP-BOC.

Many laboratories use internal/ in-service education to help employees maintain competence. What are two advantages of in-service education, when compared to sending clinical laboratory scientists to meetings outside the hospital?

Cheaper than sending employees out to conferences and more employees can attend because the CE does not requiring leaving work. This also saves time, from driving to conferences and less time is spent away from work.

Given the goal: "After the learning activity, the transfusion medicine staff will be able to execute the massive transfusion protocol", suggest an effective way to provide continuing education to the laboratory staff.

Executing protocol requires a teaching style involving a simulation. This way the staff can practice the protocol in a low stakes situation and learn from it. To begin, if the staff are unfamiliar, a short presentation or demo could be given, followed by the simulation.

The goal for a CE presentation is: After the presentation, the laboratory staff will be able to work as a team to resolve a work-related problem. Which of the following learning activities would be most effective for this presentation?

a brief lecture followed by group discussions

Which of the following cognitive skills is the most difficult to evaluate after a person has participated in a continuing education program?

application

The most common problem associated with continuing education is lack of:

attendance

One of the reasons for poor attendance at CE programs is that laboratory professionals

cannot get time off from work to attend

A limitation of evaluation forms given at the end of a CE presentation is that they

do not measure application of new knowledge

What criteria should a laboratory manager use to select the staff member who will be sent to an external CE meeting? Select the employee who

has the best performance review

A disadvantage of distance education courses compared to on-campus courses is that distance education courses

have more attrition

The supervisor of the microbiology laboratory at Smithville Community Hospital gave a presentation to all the laboratory staff on infection control. This is an example of

in-service education

The goal for a particular continuing education program is that the laboratory staff would be to be able to operate a new chemistry analyzer. The best format for attainment of this goal would be

laboratory demonstration

Larger audiences lend themselves to which of the following learning formats?

lecture

Developing instructional materials for a distance education presentation takes

more time than a traditional lecture format

A survey that identifies potential topics for continuing education programs is called a(n)

needs assessment

When CLS students who were enrolled in distance education coursework were compared with CLS student enrolled in on campus courses, the distance education students had:

similar certification scores

When selecting the learning activity that best implements the goals of a continuing education program, the presenter should consider all of the following

the number of participants, the objectives of the presentation, the degree to which the audience will be expected to participate

According to the chapter on CE by Beck and LeGrys, adult learners are more likely to participate in continuing education if

they perceive it as applicable to their work environment

In CLS 670, a group of students selected a topic from the list of approved topics. The next step in preparing their CE presentation is

writing goals and objectives