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- People doing testing in California must be licensed, or must work under supervision of licensed people. Licensure requirements are based on complexity of testing performed. Before any person works in a laboratory, licensed or not, their competency to do the job must be documented by the lab director or technical supervisor.
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A clinical laboratory must have a laboratory director who is a California-licensed physician and surgeon, master’s- or doctoral-degree1 scientist, or master’s- or doctoral-degree bioanalyst. This includes registered laboratories performing waived tests. (Business and Professions Code (BPC) § 1209)(a))
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Only a licensed physician and surgeon, a licensed osteopath, or a licensed doctoral scientist can direct a laboratory in California. However, the director of the laboratory of an acute care hospital must be a board certified pathologist.
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- Definition of Series
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- Factors Affecting Position Allocation
- Examiner I, Laboratory Field Services
- Examiner II, Laboratory Field Services
- Examiner III, Laboratory Field Services
This series specification describes three levels of Examiner, Laboratory Field Services, used in the Department of Health Services.
The Examiners, Laboratory Field Services, series describes professional work concerned with the licensing and surveillance of public health and clinical laboratories and their personnel, blood and tissue banks, biologic manufacturers, and animal care facilities. This series consults with physicians, laboratory directors, health facility administrat...
Entry into this series is typically at the Examiner I, Laboratory Field Services, level. Promotion into this class series may be made from the general classes of Public Health Microbiologist I, Public Health Chemist I, or Senior Clinical Laboratory Technologist.
Level of difficulty, variety and complexity of assigned duties, independence of action and decisions, degree of supervision received, nature of public contacts, and at the Examiner III, Laboratory Field Services, level, the degree of supervisory and administrative responsibility assigned.
This is the journeyperson level of the series. Under direction, the Examiner�I, Laboratory Field Services, works primarily in the capacity of a laboratory surveyor, applying professional knowledge and experience in general laboratory technology or in a specialized area to the examination and evaluation of all types of laboratory programs, and perfo...
This is the staff specialist level of the series. Under general direction, develops and administers a complex area of Laboratory Field Services, such as evaluation of licensing personnel, biologics licensing, and evaluation and approval of clinical laboratory training facilities; provides guidance in his/her area of specialization to Examiners I, L...
This is the full supervisory level. Under general direction, is responsible for the planning, coordination, and evaluation of a group of activities of Laboratory Field Services; provides administrative direction to Examiners I and II, Laboratory Field Services, and Cytotechnologists, Laboratory Field Services; and performs other related duties.
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"Employee" means every person in the service of an employer under any appointment or contract of hire or apprenticeship, express or implied, oral or written, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed, and includes: (a) Persons who are not citizens or nationals of the United States and minors. (b) All elected and appointed paid public officers.
Find all of the California state information on laboratory regulations: personnel and facility licensing requirements; CLIA agency contacts; and more.
