Who should attend: 

Aimed primarily at nurses and lab technicians who are responsible for the practice laboratory, the course is for those who wish to have a solid grounding in lab medicine, enabling them to produce results with confidence.

What the course will help the attendees to do 

• Get the best results, from sampling to interpretation
• Have confidence in solving common laboratory problems 
• Recognise and interpret haematological and biochemical panels
• Re-visit urine analysis with evidence based information
• Have a good grasp of the fundamentals of common cytology findings

Learning objectives

By the end of this course delegates should have a thorough understanding of:

• Quality assurance in the laboratory setting
• How results are generated and what they mean
• How individual results come together to form a clinically relevant picture
• How to interpret blood and cytology smears
• Where and when to seek further help