Scope of Practice
Scope of Practice for the profession of Medical Laboratory Technology includes:
- effective application of all competencies required to provide accurate and reliable laboratory test results contributing to the diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention of physiological and pathological conditions in humans
- striving to improve the profession to meet the many technological and procedural challenges now and into the future
- developing and assessing new techniques and implementing their proper clinical use
- promoting the development and application of knowledge
- performance and maintenance of technical skills
- correlation of test results in a clinical environment
- appropriate response to test results
- collaboration with other health care professionals