This Quality System Essential course is about the organizational structure of your laboratory, including the relationships between the laboratory director, executive management, the management, and employees. QSE Organization is also about how your lab organizes itself to design, implement, maintain, and improve your quality management system and it discusses the role of planning and review in determining the effectiveness of your laboratory’s quality management system.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Enhance the role of laboratory management in your quality management system
• Illustrate your laboratory’s structure
• Categorize the elements of a Quality Management System
• Contrast quality planning with a quality plan
• Differentiate between four types of resources to be allocated
• Perform a management review

This course has been approved for P.A.C.E.® credit. The suggested prerequisite for this course is:

• QMS: Introduction to Quality Management in the Medical Laboratory