ASCP’s Support of the
CDC OneLab™ Initiative
Negotiation & Advocacy Toolbox Pillars
To advocate for your laboratory and staffing needs, demonstration of the laboratory’s value to the overall healthcare system and patient care is critical. Developing a structured laboratory strategic plan can help outline and operationalize the core pillars needed to demonstrate value of the laboratory.
Negotiation & Advocacy Toolbox Pillars 1-5 are now complete
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Now offering Office Hours
ASCP Negotiation & Advocacy Toolbox Virtual Office Hours
These virtual office hour sessions are an open forum for participants implementing laboratory advocacy efforts in their laboratories to seek feedback from ASCP lab leaders.
Pillar 3: Quality
When: August 9th |12-1pm CT
Pillar 4: Lab Finance
When: September 13th |12-1pm CT
Pillar 5: Service & Growth
When: October 11th |12-1pm CT
Training Resources
Case-Based Best Practices in Effective Test Utilization for Clinical Laboratories
This CME/CMLE-accredited, case-based educational activity is designed to help clinical laboratory directors, clinical laboratory managers, and laboratory professionals increase the knowledge, skills, and competence in effective test utilization best practices for clinical laboratory settings. Through a series of ten 5-minute cases developed by a multidisciplinary team, you will gain a greater understanding of current and evidence-based guidelines to inform and impact clinical test ordering practices and reduce overconsumption of supplies without compromising patient care.
Some of the topics covered in this activity include:
- Effective test utilization for pancreatitis, and cardiac injury and AMI
- Blood collection tube consumption and conservation
- Strategies for Reducing Repeat Daily Lab Test Ordering
- Vitamin D Utilization – sound alike tests
- Detecting Severity and Acuity of Inflammation
The activity offers 1.0 CME/CMLE credit.
To register for this course, you will first need a ASCP account for the ASCP Store. If you do not already have an existing ASCP account, click here to create a free one.
After obtaining a free ASCP account, register for the course using the following instructions:
- Follow this direct link to the Case-Based Best Practices in Effective Test Utilization for Clinical Laboratories course page on the ASCP store
- Add the class to the cart
- Click the Checkout button
- Click the “I’m not a robot” button
- Click the Submit button
- You will see a screen that says Home and Dashboard, click on Dashboard
- On the Dashboard page, there’s a section that says My Education, click on the blue button that says My Courses
- You’ll see a list of courses on the next page that you are registered for
- Click the button that says Launch or Start next to the name of the course
- Then you will be taken to the LMS to start the class
- Following completion of the course, course credit will be visible on the Dashboard page, under the section that says My Education, and the button that says Certificates & Transcript
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Apply proven effective test utilization best practices for clinical laboratories.
Outline ways to reduce overconsumption of testing supplies without compromising patient care.
Evaluate evidence-based guidelines to inform and impact test ordering practices.
Improve communication with ordering physicians to more effectively use available resources.
Supply Chain Management Techniques
Using Alternative Test Supplies/Vendors/Labs
Testing Conservation Strategies
Ordering Additional Supplies
Continuing Communication with Vendor
Educating Providers
Aligning Your Laboratory Team Job Aid
The clinical laboratory attracts individuals who are organized, detail-oriented, enjoy challenges, and are committed to contributing to patient care through timely and accurate testing. Despite facing staffing shortages, the laboratory workforce seeks to enhance its resilience and diversity.
This job aid is designed to offer clinical laboratory leaders ideas on supporting tasks that may align with their team members’ character traits, preferences, or personal interests. While not comprehensive, it aims to provide general guidance to better match the supportive tasks in your laboratory with the personal interests and inclinations of your team.
Events
ASCP 2024 Annual Meeting Workforce Lounge
Visit us at the Workforce Lounge at ASCP 2024 Annual Meeting September 4-6 2024 in Chicago, where you can experience:
- An interactive display featuring the Negotiation & Advocacy Toolbox
- A virtual reality laboratory training demo from OneLab VR
- Updates from ASCP staff on the workforce initiatives at ASCP and in partnership with CDC
Check out the Amazing Lab Race
Chicago edition at ASCP 2024 Annual Meeting!
Title: “Practical Applications of Tools in the ASCP Negotiation & Advocacy Toolbox”
Date: September 6, 2024 (12:45 – 2:15 pm CT)
Virtual Learning Series
Building Bridges Series #3 Coming in 2025!
- We are looking for Laboratory Professionals from various lab sectors to share their career trajectory.
- Feature unique collaborations/partnerships that shaped their careers.
- If you have a recommendation on someone to consider, please email us at grants@ascp.org.
Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community:
ASCP is collaborating with the CDC to launch, Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community. This virtual laboratory capacity building series will spotlight stories of collaborative laboratory partnerships contributing to effective emergency response management and innovative solutions to workforce challenges. These case studies will showcase collaborations across the greater laboratory community and focus on lessons learned and best practices.
Partnerships in Service of Effective Data Sharing
Topic: The fifth and final session of this year’s Building Bridges series, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Manager of Food Safety, Ms. Kirsten Larson, MPH, will present a case study to demonstrate the importance of clinical laboratory isolate submission to public health laboratories (PHLs) for whole genome sequencing (WGS) as part of the PulseNet system. Ms. Kelly Wroblewski, MPH, MT(ASCP), APHL Director of the Infectious Diseases Program, will present an overview of how partners share critical and timely data to support the influenza surveillance system.
Faculty:
- Kirsten Larson, MPH
Manager, Food Safety
Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Kelly Wroblewski, MPH, MT(ASCP)
Director, Infectious Disease Programs
Association of Public Health Laboratories
Twinning and Sharing Best Practices: Regional Partnerships
Faculty:
- Lorelei J. Kurimski, MS
Director, Quality Systems and Analytics
Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Bertina Su, MPH
Manager, Quality Systems and Analytics
Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Ryan Bernard, MBA
Administration Manager
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
- John Laurance IV
Select Agent Program RO, Biosafety Officer
Division of Public Health, State of Alaska - Jason Wholehan, MLS(ASCP)
Bioterrorism Training Coordinator
Michigan Department of Health & Human Services
- Christine Bean, PhD, MBA, MLS(ASCP
Chief Learning Officer
Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Jill Power, MS, M(ASCP), CMQ/OE(ASQ)
Deputy Director (ret.)
NH Public Health Laboratories, Concord, NH
Partnerships in Service of Laboratory Training & Fellowships
Faculty:
- Angela Fritzinger, Ph.D.
Scientist Manager (Contractor)
Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services - Karen Honeycutt, Ph.D. MEd, MASCP, MLS(ASCP)
Program Director, Medical Laboratory Science Program
University of Nebraska Medical Center - Kelly Winter, Ph.D. MPH
Chief, Training and Workforce Development Branch
Division of Laboratory Systems
Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Supporting DE&I Initiatives in the Laboratory Workforce
Faculty:
- Dana Powell Baker, Ed.D., MBA, MS, MLS(ASCP)
Manager, Academic Partnerships
Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Marilyn Bibbs Freeman, Ph. D., M(ASCP)
Deputy Director, Department of General Services
Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services
- H. Cliff Sullivan MD, F(ACHI), FASCP
Laboratory Director, Cellular Therapy Laboratory
Co-Director, HLA Laboratory
Emory University
Responding to Emerging Outbreaks: Sharing the Load among Laboratory System Partners
“Responding to Emerging Outbreaks: Sharing the Load among Laboratory System Partners,” Dr. Christine
Bean, PhD, MBA, MLS(ASCP) shared a case study about collaborative approaches to tackling a New
Hampshire HCV outbreak, and Dr. Rodney E. Rohde, PhD, MS, SM(ASCP)CM, SVCM, MBCM, FACSc, Global
Fellow discussed the multidisciplinary effort to launch a large-scale oral Rabies vaccination program for
wildlife in Texas.
Faculty:
- Christine Bean, PhD, MBA, MLS(ASCP); Chief Learning Officer, Association of Public Health Laboratories;
Former Laboratory Director, New Hampshire Public Health Laboratories - Rodney Rohde, PhD, SM(ASCP)CM, SVCM, MBCM, FACSc, Global Fellow; Professor and Chair of Medical Laboratory Science Program
Texas State University
Increasing National Access to Mpox Testing by Leveraging Reference Lab Capacity
Topic: In this fourth session of the Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community series, ASCP, and CDC are excited to bring you a case study featuring Suzanne Dale, Ph.D., D(ABMM) on how the Labcorp team worked closely with the CDC and FDA to validate and scale high-throughput testing platforms to response to the emergence of mpox during the summer of 2022. Reference labs are uniquely suited to rapidly increase testing capacity and access to laboratory testing to support public health responses. In addition, the large amount of data generated from high-throughput testing for infectious diseases can provide real-time insights on the epidemiology of outbreaks. Dr. Dale will share her experience collaborating with the CDC and the FDA to validate and scale laboratory assays for mpox, as well as insights from the laboratory data generated from offering testing nationally.
Faculty:
- Suzanne E. Dale, PhD, D(ABMM); Discipline Director; Molecular Microbiology and Molecular Infectious Diseases; Labcorp
Using Wastewater Surveillance to Understand Infectious Disease Trends
Topic: In this 3rd session of the Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community series, we are excited to bring you a case study featuring collaborations in support of the CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System. Wastewater Surveillance has been used since the 1960s to identify communities with polio transmission. During the COVID pandemic, this surveillance approach was modified to detect infection trends. Wastewater data is a leading indicator of increases and decreases in COVID and is used to inform public health messaging, resource allocation and personal decisions, like masking and travel.
Faculty:
- Amy Kirby, Ph.D., MPH, National Wastewater Surveillance System Lead, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3D-Printed Nasal Swabs for the City of Austin’s COVID-19 Response
Topic: In this second session of the Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community series, ASCP and CDC are excited to bring you a case study featuring Juan Gomez, Ph.D. on how his team re-purposed existing and idle 3D printers at Texas State University to produce nasal swabs in support of the City of Austin’s COVID-19 testing response. This innovative strategy helped to locally address the widespread supply chain bottleneck involving access to nasal swab observed early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Gomez will share his experience collaborating with the city and other academic centers to support this effort as well as successes, challenges, and lessons learned to better inform future public health emergency response supply chain manufacturing and management.
Faculty:
- Juan Gomez, Ph.D., Research Associate; Department of Physics – Shared Research Operations; Texas State University
Exchanging Best Practices & Creating Statewide Policy Change for the Lab Workforce
Topic: The New York State Laboratory Leadership Consortium, presenting on their mobilization to exchange laboratory best practices at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to support local COVID-19 testing and emergency responses and subsequently to collectively impact state-wide policies affecting laboratory licensure for laboratory professionals in New York.
Faculty:
- Jim Crawford, MD, Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hofstra/Northwell Health
- John Tomaszewski, MD, Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Buffalo
- Jenny Libien, MD, Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, SUNY Downstate
- Eloise Aita, PhD, President, New York State Clinical Laboratory Association
- Kenra Ford, Vice President of Clinical Services Operations, NYC Health and Hospitals
Volunteer Opportunities
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Scholarships
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