COVID-19 Collection Skill Set
Demand for workers in the Pathology industry is high - get the skills you need to start your career.
You'll undertake three units of competency to gain entry level skills to work safely in the pathology industry.
This course remains FEE FREE in 2024! The course fees are 100 per cent subsidised by the WA State Government for WA residents.
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* Please note that eligibility requirements apply to some of the free training.
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The COVID-19 Collection skill set will give you the skills and knowledge required to collect, prepare and dispatch a pathology specimen for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing — a technique used to copy small segments of DNA and to diagnose infections such as COVID-19.
This training will get you job ready for working in hospitals or outpatient clinics, GP clinics and specialist rooms, home collection services and other public and private healthcare settings equip you with the skills and knowledge to. It includes learning to work in compliance with infection prevention and control policies and procedures.
The skills you gain are highly transferrable, with PCR used in a number of laboratory and clinical techniques including DNA fingerprinting, detection of bacteria, and diagnosis of genetic disorders. Your skills can also be used for the collection of pathology specimens in anthropological and forensic examination, which could be a pathway into a range of interesting work areas including forensic and criminal sciences.
Please note this skill set will be run subject to enrolment numbers.
- How to collect and dispatch a pathology specimen for testing to diagnose infections such as COVID-19.
- Compliance with infection prevention and control policies and procedures
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