FINALS: CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Change is inevitable and essential. Change Management is the discipline that guides how we prepare, equip and support individuals to successfully adopt change in order to drive organizational success and outcomes. It goes along the latest trends for it to achieve its goal and purpose, as well as meet the needs of people. It requires understanding how people experience change and help them make a successful transition.

Change might be simple but it never comes easy unless you get rid of barriers or decide to accept what is new and up-and-coming, especially when you're a part of a generation where we continuously and simultaneously evolve.

So how do we relate this in laboratory managment?
It requires strategy, right measurements and certain improvements that makes change in the laboratory easier and organized. Either it is for technological advancements in order to get a satisfactory, fast and accurate result whenever there is a need of laboratory exam, or on how the employees and patients adopt to the environment. At the same time, it takes effort to build up what a laboratory lacks and cannot be simply handled by one individual. An initiative to change should be lead by competent leaders, eager and willing to help his or her enterprise or organization to  meet that change and be able to meet people's needs. Each employee should know the strategies of achieving change and should have the right motivation in order to be consistent in applying change.

  

FINALS: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

It always tend to get critical whenever we handle money, most importantly when it come to managing it. Having that responsibility of operating and budgeting finances means it needs more careful and firm planning.
Making decisions on whether how it is spent and how it is invested for future use must be decided wisely.

Funds and budget play important role on managing the finances of a laboratory. Funds are described as a sum of money of its equivalent, accumulated or reserved for a specific purpose while budget is described as a forecast of expenditures necessary to perform the anticipated workload (meaning every money being spent or being considered to be spent shall be delegated according to what limits an individual has set before deciding to purchase or buy a certain item or desire).

I believe that funding and budgeting does not only apply in how you handle finances in the laboratory, but should also be practiced in our everyday lives. Budgeting and funding helps us to be disciplined of managing money the right way and spending it on the right and reasonable purpose.

FINALS: SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Safety management is an essential and vital part of managing a laboratory, because most of the ones we are going to handle requires careful and keen actions. We will be encountering a lot of situations where our health is at risk and makes us prone to exposure of various harmful substances or radiations. The workplace, facilities and the how the clinical laboratory is constructed greatly affects the safety management of an organization or hospital. 

The primary concern of safety management is that its employees and clients (patients, costumers etc.) are both comfortable and assured that whatever happens, their health would not be compromised and most importantly, not going to cost their own lives.

Safety programs should include the prevention and precautionary bits of information on how to be prepared when a certain situation happens in the laboratory. The chemical, biological and fire prevention measures should be discussed and demonstrated to every employee who would be performing certain tasks that puts their health at risk.

Hazards, protective methods and procedures, safety equipment, safety codes all comprises the safety management that a laboratory and its employees shall comply. It should be all based on the standards and regulations that the authorities have stated to be carried out by a clinical laboratory.