advocacy for the profession …making a difference
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Advocacy for the Profession …making a difference. Toronto April 13, 2010. Advocacy. Elizabeth Mercuri, BSc, MLT Professor, Medical Laboratory Science The Michener Institute Toronto, ON. Louisiana State University. Overton Brooks VAMC, Louisiana. Laboratory Medicine. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Toronto
April 13, 2010
Elizabeth Mercuri, BSc, MLTProfessor, Medical Laboratory
ScienceThe Michener InstituteToronto, ON
Overton Brooks VAMC, LouisianaLouisiana State University
Laboratory Medicine
What is advocacy?
How does advocacy impact the profession?
How does leadership (or does it) relate?
Someone who speaks for another
Legal
Human rights
Health care
Behind the scenes MLTs are vital members of the healthcare team in their key role of laboratory testing.
70% of patient’s file is medical lab results 70% of physician’s treatment plan is based
on quality lab results
as part of the bigger health care picture,think outside of the lab and realize the contribution that you make in your daily worklife
“Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”
-VirgilAncient Roman Poet and Author, 70-19
BC
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/virgil/
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what
we give.”
Winston Churchill
…requires self confidence and self leadership.
OUR Patients!
That we should get involved, develop
ourselves as leaders, advocate for the
profession, and help shape the future of lab
medicine.
Toronto
April 13, 2010
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