Meeting & Agendas

•Accreditation is done every 7 years and is scheduled for November 18, 2010 •Terry Kotrla will invite Advisory Committee members back for questions with the accreditation visitors (Visitors do not go to the clinics anymore) a. Excellent paper review b. Two items need to be addressed by site visitors: i. MLT first year >Currently have approximately 75 student folders >Some are still working on prerequisites >Prediction for Spring 2011 that there will be another 15-20 students as ACC is seeing the number of students increase >Each campus will be able to accept 12 students, maximum ii. Number of Phlebotomy graduates – versus Tech Prep >Phlebotomy graduates for ????? - 10 students graduated >Tech prep – 30 students successfully finished the program in Summer, 2010 >ASCP - In 2009, of 23 students, 3 failed. Of the 3 that failed, 2 retook the exam and passed. There was only 1 true failure which puts ACC at a 90% pass rate.

a. Allow ACC faculty to perform mini-clinicals at sites to familiarize themselves with current technology and get input on how we can mirror those activities on campus. •Need information to take back to classrooms to make students aware of current practices >Case studies, want to discuss with students various case studies in classroom •Need donated materials, can be old and dated >There is a need for blood culture bottles +Call ACC staff if there is a question about what can be donated and for ACC to pick up materials b. Please copy and post handouts c. Assistance with recruiting

a. Number of openings for MLTs and PHBs – is ACC meeting the needs? If not, what can be done to enhance recruitment? •CPL has positions open •Other clinics represented seem to have good retention at this time •Opportunity in Smithville, Seton has bought hospital there •ACC is currently working out an Affiliation Agreement with Scott and White b. Weakness of graduates? Is there a consistent weakness among new graduates? •None noted by clinical staff in attendance c. Strengths – what are the graduates doing completely or exceptionally well at entry level? •ACC students are very prepared •ACC students are ambitious •Clinic site staff impressed with ACC student professionalism – ACC students are the most mature and professional •ACC students are passionate •It was noted that the ACC students are an older age than traditional college students, many are working on second careers d. Other •Another full-time faculty position was granted and is now posted •The department has four hematology analyzers, two table top chemistry analyzers (at both campuses) and approval for more urinalysis analyzers to be located at the Eastview campus >Can do more onsite clinical with this state of the art equipment >Students get hands on experience with the best equipment e. What can we do for you ?

a. Meeting with clinical faculty to revise clinical objectives •In the spring, clinics will be contact by email to look over our competencies and objectives and provide feedback so that ACC can ensure the content is current.

a. Direct potential students to http://www.austincc.edu/health/ b. MLT and PHB Information Sessions are online c. Second year of MLT program can be completed online

•Program is a model for distance learning >ACC has been working on program for 6 months/now being beta tested >Second session was created because of increased enrollment of students oOffered to all (to draw interest) as well as a component of a degree plan oPart of Capstone

a. Moving courses forward one semester so clinical will be in Fall semester b. Need students for Spring class •Due to clinic requests, in the spring fundamental course and techniques will be offered +Clinics, please share with your employees •Tuition and lab fees are very reasonable

•ACC has added 3 new adjunct instructors a. Graduates •There were 11 graduates last summer b. ASCP •Of the 11 students that graduated last summer, 8 have taken the ASCP exam and 5 passed. Possible reasons why students didn’t pass were explored and it was noted that English was not their first language or they took the exam too early c. First Year d. Second Year •There are 19 current second year students, 7 at the Round Rock campus. •MLT staff is content with the size of the groups and feel the smaller group for Round Rock is a good thing at this time

•Discussions were made regarding the use of traditional needles and butterfly needles and how to discern the need for each •It was recommended that students shadow pediatric and geriatric patients because no specific training is offered for each and these are difficult groups for clinicals a. Traditional b. Tech Prep •Tech prep students are incorporated into clinical rotations with traditional students and clinics are not told what kind of student they have to avoid misconceptions about age and maturity level c. ASCP

•Evening classes are offered in Round Rock and are working out well •New facility has made an allowance for 19 new students a. Doubled enrollment b. Labs are set up for MLT and Molecular

•Chemistry and microbiology will be done in the summer •Evening rotations/night rotations for students are working out well and require and ACC faculty staff member to be on call •Evening clinicals allow for more clinic staff time with students •Keeps students interested and ensures that they can handle the pressures of the environment •ACC curriculum is developed to make sure the clinical sites are only asked for one rotation per year +Kerri and Terry will have a meeting and then send out tentative schedules to clinics