(a) The board shall prescribe minimum qualifications for medical laboratory personnel, to include generalists, specialty and subspecialty categories as dictated by current laboratory practices, and special analysts in microbiology, serology, biochemistry, hematology, immunohematology and biophysics.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-29-118

  • Analytic testing: means that phase of medical laboratory testing, as defined by the board, that can impact the reliability of the results reported. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Board: means the medical laboratory board, created by §. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Medical laboratory: means any institution, building, or place in which operations and procedures for the microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, immunohematological, or biophysical examination of specimens taken from the human body are performed to obtain information for diagnosis, prophylaxis, or treatment or where any examination, determination, or test is made on any sample used as a basis for health advice, or where any sample is collected for the purpose of transfusion or processing of blood or blood fractions, or for the training of medical laboratory personnel. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Medical laboratory personnel: includes the medical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, or technician, but does not include medical laboratory assistants, trainees, or other persons employed by a medical laboratory to perform clerical or other administrative responsibilities involving no laboratory test. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Medical laboratory supervisor: means a person who, under the general supervision of a medical laboratory director, supervises technical personnel, performs tests requiring special scientific skills, and, in the absence of the director, is held responsible for the proper performance of all medical laboratory procedures and the reporting of results. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Medical laboratory technologist: means a person who performs tests that require the exercise of independent judgment and responsibility with minimal supervision by the director or supervisor, in only those specialties or subspecialties in which the technologist is qualified by education, training, and experience. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, municipality, political subdivision, or any other entity whether organized for profit or not. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
(b) The board shall issue a license to any person who meets the minimum qualifications and who demonstrates that such person possesses the character, training and ability to qualify in those areas for which the license is sought.
(c) Persons who perform analytic testing or report the results of an examination shall be under the supervision of a licensed medical laboratory director, medical laboratory supervisor, or medical laboratory technologist, or other person so designated by the rules and regulations promulgated under the authority of this chapter and the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
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