Clinical Laboratory Technician

Pre-Admission Recommendations:
High School Average of 85%
Computer Skills
College Level Math, Biology and Chemistry

Admission Criteria includes:
- a high school degree or HSE (High School Equivalency);
- overall high school average of 85% within the last five years;
- an 85% final grade in high school general biology and chemistry;
- a minimum placement test result at the Math 143 and English 110 level;
- a minimum college GPA of 2.7 within the last 5 years;
- completion of all required developmental English courses;
- completion of developmental math courses; and
completion of high school biology or Biology 107 and - high school chemistry or chemistry with a lab (CH 010/011) achieving a minimum grade of "C" in both within the last five (5) years.

Essential Functions:
In order for the student to perform the essential functions of the clinical laboratory science profession, the following technical standards are required of students entering the CLT Associate in Applied Science Program.

Essential Movement Requirements for the CLT student:

1. Move freely and safely about a laboratory
   
2. Reach bench tops and shelves, patients lying in hospital beds or patients seated in specimen collection furniture.
   
3. Travel to numerous clinical laboratory sites for practical experience.
   
4. Perform moderately taxing continuous physical work, often requiring prolonged sitting, over several hours.
   
5. Maneuver phlebotomy and culture acquisition equipment to safely collect valid laboratory specimens from patients.
   
6. Control laboratory equipment and adjust instruments to perform laboratory procedures.
   
7. Use an electronic keyboard to operate laboratory instruments and to calculate, evaluate and transmit laboratory results
   

 

Essential Communications requirements for the program in CLT:

1. Read and comprehend technical and professional materials 
   
2. Follow verbal and written instructions in order to correctly and independently perform laboratory test procedures.
   
3. Clearly instruct patients prior to specimen collection
   
4. Effectively, confidently, and sensitively converse with patients regarding laboratory tests.
   
5. Communicate with faculty members, fellow students, staff and other health care professionals verbally and in a recorded format (writing, typing, graphic or telecommunication).
   
6. Independently prepare papers, prepare laboratory reports, and take paper, computer and laboratory practical examinations.
   

 

Essential Intellectual requirements for the program in CLT:

1. Possess these intellectual skills: comprehension, measurement, mathematical calculation, reasoning, integration, analysis, comparison, self-expression, and criticism.
   
2. Be able to exercise sufficient judgment to recognize and correct performance deviations.
   

 

Essential Behavioral requirements for the program in CLT:

1. Be able to manage the use of time and be able to systematize actions in order to complete professional and technical tasks within realistic constraints.
   
2. Possess the emotional health necessary to effectively employ intellect and exercise appropriate judgment.
   
3. Be able to provide professional and technical services while experiencing the stresses of task-related uncertainty, emergent demands, and a distracting environment.
   
4. Be flexible and creative and adapt to professional and technical change.
   
5. Recognize potentially hazardous materials, equipment, and situations, and proceed safely in order to minimize risk of injury to patients, self and nearby individuals.
   
6. Adapt to working with unpleasant biologicals.
   
7. Support and promote the activities of fellow students and of health care professionals.  Promotion of peers helps furnish a team approach to learning, task completion, problem solving and patient care.
   
8. Be honest, compassionate, ethical and responsible.  The student must be forthright about errors or uncertainty.  The student must be able to critically evaluate own performance, accept constructive criticism and look for ways to improve.  The student must be able to evaluate the performance of fellow students and tactfully offer constructive comments.

 

Health Science Report Form
A Health Science Division Health Report Form is required to be submitted before students complete ML 111 coursework to ensure that matriculated students are in good physical and mental health and capable of completing the program requirements.  The Health Report Form includes a physical examination and an immunization report. In addition to the college immunization requirements, the SUNY system highly recommends that students handling fluids that have been recognized by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as directly linked to the transmission of HBV/or HIV (blood, blood products, body fluids, etc.) be vaccinated against HBV. Additionally, students need to be tested annually for TB (PPD test) and must have a tetanus vaccination within the last 10 years. Students must also have documentation of either history of Varicella (chicken pox); two dates of VZV immunizations; or VZV titer levels. Futhermore, the NYS Department of Health mandates all students scheduled for clinical rotations must receive the Influenza vaccine and requires that unvaccinated persons wear a surgical mask at all times while in areas where patients may be present. The immunization record is required to be complete and current in order for students to participate in clinical laboratories and clinical rotations. The college reserves the right to deny progression in the CLT Program when students have not updated or submit incomplete health report forms.

 

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SUNY Erie Community College Clinical Laboratory Technician curriculum and its program of study meets the educational requirements set by the Board of Regents in New York state to award an Associate in Applied Science Degree with a major in Clinical Laboratory Technician. We are accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS), and our graduates are eligible to take the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) Board of Certification (BOC) exam. Practice as a certified clinical laboratory technician and the use of the title “certified clinical laboratory technician” in New York State requires licensure, unless otherwise exempt under the law. New York State Education Department (NYSED) accepts the American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Certification Examination requirement for NYS licensure. To be licensed as a certified clinical laboratory technician in New York State you must meet all requirements including: be of good moral character; be at least 18 years of age; meet education requirements; and meet examination requirements. To meet education requirements, you must document that you have received an Associate’s or higher degree for certified clinical laboratory technician (or a related title) from a program registered by the Department as licensure qualifying at the time of graduation (A list of licensure‐qualifying programs can be found on
the Inventory of Registered Programs under “CLIN LAB TECHN”). To meet examination requirements, you must pass the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Board of Certification’s examination for Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) for licensure as a Certified Clinical Laboratory Technician. New York State will now also accept ASCP MLT international exams (ASCPi). http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/clt/clp‐cltlic.htm

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National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS) 5600 N River Road Suite 720 Rosemont, Illinois 60018 (773) 714-8880 http://www.naacls.org.

NAACLS Accreditation guidelines require that a procedure be established for determining that the applicant's or student's health will permit them to meet the technical standards of the program.

 

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