Calibration Session & Pipetting Assessment

Today I attended a teaching session on "Calibration, standardisation, and quality control"(lead by a consultant Clinical Scientist in our department), after the session I undertook a pipetting competency assessment (so I can use it for one of my evidences). 

                                                                                                  

Reflecting on today, I feel that my pipetting technique was off which is why I didn't do particularly well on the assessment. Nevertheless, todays teaching session has been useful to me, as I have a greater understanding of terms such as calibration/calibrator, reference standard, traceability, and quality control. I should probably refer to the print out notes that was given during the teaching session and read it over again, at some point this week.






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