Clinical Laboratory Technician Program
The following information is an overview of information relevant to the Clinical Laboratory Technician Program found in the Hartfield Library at Henderson Community College. This information is not intended to be a complete list of such material, but rather is a sampling of some titles that will be helpful and easily found in the Hartfield Library.
“Clinical laboratory testing plays a crucial role in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disease… Clinical laboratory personnel examine and analyze body fluids, and cells… They use automated equipment and computerized instruments capable of performing a number of tests simultaneously, as well as microscopes, cell counters, and other sophisticated laboratory equipment. Then they analyze the results and relay them to the physicians.” (From the online Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 ed.)
To find information useful for classes in this program, you may look in several places. Our library's online catalog is called Voyager. Using Voyager, you can do a basic search by typing in key words, such as "hematology" or “blood” or “microbiology.” Voyager will show you all the books and audiovisual materials available on the selected topic. You will find that many Library of Congress call numbers on these subjects begin with the letter “Q” or “R" (e.g. for books on medical terminology, look at books with the call number R 123). If you wanted to browse the shelves in the reference collection or in the circulating collection located on the second floor, both the “Q” and the "R" sections would be a good places to look. You may also look in the online databases of periodical articles, the hard copy periodicals, the audiovisual collection, or Internet Web sites. Each of these sources of information is explained below.
Clinical Laboratory Technicians are heavily involved in the many and diverse operations of medical facilities. Thus, when Clinical Laboratory Technician students search, many information sources termed “Nursing and Allied Health” will be of significant value.
If you have questions or need assistance in finding additional materials, please see a librarian at the reference desk or contact the reference desk at 270-831-9767. Email assistance is available at kevin.reid@kctcs.edu.
FINDING BOOKS
To find books in either the reference or circulating collections, use Voyager. When searching Voyager, please remember to limit your searches to Henderson Community College; otherwise the search will find books held in any of the KCTCS libraries. More thorough instructions on the use of Voyager are available in the tri-fold brochure titled “Using Voyager.” This brochure is available at the front of the library. Instructions for using Voyager are also available through the Blackboard software in the “Information Literacy Training” eCommunity. For more information on this, ask a member of the library staff for assistance.
Subject Headings are key words or phrases used in Voyager to tell you what a book is about. The most efficient and productive searches are those that use Subject Headings. Some of the Subject Headings that are particularly useful for students in the Clinical Laboratory Technician Program are:
Allied Health Personnel
Biochemistry
Blood
Blood – Collection and Preservation
Blood Transfusion
Body Fluids
Clinical Chemistry
Clinical Laboratory
Diagnostic Microbiology
Drugs – Analysis
Hematology
Immunohematology
Immunology
Laboratories
Medical Laboratory Technology
Medical Technologists
Microbial Chemistry
Microbiology
Pharmacology
Phlebotomy
Serology
Urine – Analysis
Reference Books
Reference materials are materials that are created to give you general information about a topic. After you read the information in a reference book, you can search the library for more detailed and extensive information. Hopefully, you will find some good ideas about useful subject headings or key words that are relevant to your topic by looking through the reference books. When you are ready to search for more information about your topic, you can use the library's online catalog, Voyager. Below is a list of titles of some reference books that you might find helpful. Because these are reference books, they cannot be checked out; instead they are to be used in the library.
1. Atlas of Hematology, REF RC633 .A536 2003
2. Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, REF RS 37 .C55 2001
3. Clinical Laboratory Tests: Values and Implications, Ref RB 38.2 .C56 2001
4. Directory of Clinical Laboratory Science Education Programs, REF RB 37.6 .D57
5. Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, REF R 121 .D73
6. Laboratory Test Handbook, REF RB 38.2 .L34
7. Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, REF RB 38.2 .L33 2001
8. Medical Abbreviations & Eponyms (2nd edition), REF R 123 .S569 1997
9. Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual (5th edition), REF RT 48.6 .S66 2001
10. Physicians’ Desk Reference, REF RS 75 .P5 2006
11. Practice Questions for the Histotechnology Examinations,
REF RB 31 .B63 2001
12. Widmann’s Clinical Interpretations of Laboratory Tests,
REF RB 37 .S225 2000
Books That Can Be Checked Out (Circulating Books)
Circulating books are books that can be checked out of the library. The circulating collection is located on the second floor of the library. Anyone with a valid library card may check out these books. Below are some titles that may be of interest to students in the Clinical Laboratory Technician Program.
1. Building A Medical Vocabulary: With Spanish Translations, R 123 .L46 2001
2. Fundamentals of Urine and Body Fluid Analysis, RB53 .B86 2004
3. Hematology, RB45 .D49 2002
4. Introduction to Health Occupations, R 697 .A4 B33 2004
5. Physician Assistants Guide to Research & Medical Literature,
R 697 .P45 P488 2001
6.Principles of Clinical Laboratory Management, R 860 .P75 2004
7. Quality Management for Clinical Laboratories, RB 37 .Q35 2005
8. Success! In Phlebotomy, RB 45.15 .G37 2005
Electronic Books
Many of the library's newest books supporting the Clinical Laboratory Technician program are available electronically through the NetLibrary collection which is accessed through the Voyager online catalog. NetLibrary provides a collection of over 29,000 full-text books which can be read online. To access these books, simply enter a search in Voyager, and scan the resulting titles. If an e-book is available, the phrase, "[electronic resource]" will appear after the title. Click on the title to read any of the electronic books. You can check the books out for up to four hours. Additional instructions for accessing electronic books are available at the reference desk. For instructions on how to access and use these electronic books, use the tri-fold brochure titled, “Using NetLibrary.” Some Clinical Laboratory Technician titles include:
- ABC of Clinical Haematology
- Bioanalytical Chemistry
- Blood Group Antigen Factsbook
- Data Analysis for Chemistry
- Good Laboratory Practice
- Human Microbiology
- Informatics for the Clinical Laboratory
- Meeting the Challenges of Blood Safety in the 21st Century
- Microbiology Demystified
- Nurse's manual of laboratory and diagnostic tests.
- Prions: A Challenge for Science, Medicine, and the Public Health System
- Tracks we leave: ethics in healthcare management
FINDING PERIODICAL ARTICLES
Students generally find articles taken from magazines and journals to be particularly useful sources of current information. To help students, the Hartfield Library subscribes to a wide variety of periodicals in both hard copy and electronic formats. The articles available electronically are found on a number of databases accessible through the library's web page. For instructions on how to access articles from the specific databases, use the tri-fold brochures available in the front of the library (e.g. "How to Use InfoTrac.")
Printed Periodicals
The following periodical titles are available in the hardcopy format on the library's first floor and are of value to the students of the Clinical Laboratory Technician Program.
1. American Journal of Nursing
2. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
3. Mayo Clinic Health Letter
4. Medical Laboratory Observer
5. Science News
6. Scientific American
Online Databases
Each of these databases contains hundreds of full-text articles as they were published in various national magazines and journals. To see which periodicals are available full-text in each database, select that database, go to the message "Title List" and click on it to review the list (in the ProQuest databases, click on “Publication Search”). If you want to read an article from a specific periodical after searching a database, be sure to specify that title during your search.
Please note that each database offers help screens that explain how the search engine of that database operates. These help screens also identify the advanced search options for students who want to fine-tune their searches.
EBSCOHost
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Allied & Health Literature)
Pre-CINAHL
MEDLINE
Clinical Pharmacology
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Professional Development Collection
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
AcademicSearch Premier
MasterFile Premier
InfoTrac
Health Reference Center Academic
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Expanded Academic ASAP
ProQuest
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health
ProQuest Career and Technical Education
First Search
MEDLINE
ECO
WorldCat
Audio-Visual Materials
Audio-visual materials can come in many forms. Videos, DVD's, CD's, filmstrips, and slides are all audio-visual materials. At the Hartfield Library, many of our audio-visual materials are DVDs and videos. The audio-visual materials are located on the first floor, in room LB 102. The titles below may be of interest to students in the Clinical Laboratory Technician Program.
- Preventing Preanalytical Errors, AV RB45.15 .P74 2004
- Basic Venipuncture, AV RB 45.15 .B37 2004
- Avoiding Phlebotomy-Related Lawsuits, AV RB45.15 .A86 2004
- Skin and soft tissue infections, AV RL 201 .S54
- Bloodborne Pathogens, AV RA642 .B56 B56
- Biobasics, AV QL 45.2 .B61 2005
Internet Web Sites
Internet sites are becoming increasingly useful. Many sites—especially those associated with professional organizations offer connections to information such as articles, bibliographies, and job search engines. A few such useful web sites are listed below. Please be aware that electronic addresses do change frequently. If an address listed below becomes obsolete, use an Internet search engine like Yahoo or Google to find the new address for the organization.
1. http://www.naacls.org
National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences
This site offers a search the site feature. It also provides information concerning accreditation for the following: CLS/MT – Clinical Laboratory Scientist/Medical Technologist, CLT/MLT – Clinical Laboratory Technician/Medical Laboratory Technician, DMS – Diagnostic Molecular Specialist, HT – Histological Technician, HTL – Histotechnologist, and Pathologist Assistant. It also offers links to programs, students, volunteers, committees, and workshops.
2. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/laboratorytests.html
MEDLINEplus, a service of the National Library of Medicine
This site provides a search feature. It also contains information on the following: understanding your tests, diagnosis/symptoms, prevention/screening, research, specific conditions/aspects, and children. This site also provides the names of dozens of tests and conditions/diseases. It provides a screenings by age section.
3. http://www.ascls.org
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
This site provides a search feature. It also provides information concerning the following: leadership, position papers, conferences, publications, membership, news, forums, education, and a career center. It also provides links related to the following: clinical laboratory professional organizations, certification/accreditation/standards organizations, more publications, educational resource links, and other general medical links.
4. http://www.ama-assn.org
The American Medical Association (AMA).
This site offers a search the site feature. The mission of the AMA is to help doctors help patients and provides information on such topics as medical advocacy, a wide variety of professional resources, and news in the medical field.
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