Personnel and Qualifications: Types of Clinical Laboratory Personnel

Supervisor Qualifications

  • Licensed as a technologist or meets the requirements to be licensed
  • Completes a Board-approved two-hour course related to the prevention of medical errors that includes root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety.
  • Meets one of the following:
    • Doctoral degree in chemical science, biological science, or clinical laboratory science + one year of laboratory experience in the category in which licensure is sought, and 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration
    • Doctoral degree in chemical science, biological science, or clinical laboratory science + one year of laboratory experience in the category in which licensure is sought, and DLM(ASCP) or CLSup(NCA) for all categories or ASCP specialty certification for the category in which licensure is sought
    • Master's degree in chemical science, biological science, clinical laboratory science, or medical technology + three years of laboratory experience including one year experience in the category in which licensure is sought and either 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration; or DLM(ASCP) or CLSup(NCA) for all categories or ASCP specialty certification for the category in which licensure is sought
    • Bachelor's degree with 24 semester hours of academic science including 8 semester hours of biological sciences and 8 semester hours of chemical sciences + five years of lab experience, of which two must have been as a technologist and at least 1 year experience in the category in which licensure is sought, and either 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration or DLM(ASCP) or CLSup(NCA) for all categories or ASCP specialty certification for the category in which licensure is sought.

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