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Unit 4 Laboratory Techniques and their Application - BTEC Level 3 National Foundation Diploma in Applied Science

Learning aim: Understand how scientific information may be stored and communicated in a workplace laboratory

Assignment - Storing and communicating information in a laboratory.

Scenario: You are a lab technician working in the development department for a pharmaceutical company that develops and produces new drugs.

The lab stores confidential information relating to drug development. It also stores personal and confidential information relating to volunteers who are used for drug trials.

Your manager has asked you to produce a report evaluating the challenges in storing and communicating the range of information recorded and processed within the laboratory, comparing the systems in the development laboratory to those in the company's manufacturing department.

Task 1: You must write a report that:

• Explains how useful scientific information is obtained from large data sets
• Explains how a workplace laboratory records and processes large datasets of scientific information(e.g. booking, identification number, format, records) and the type of data collected (e.g. healthcare records)
• Explains how this meets customer needs and how it ensures traceability e.g. signatures, unique computer logins
• Explains how the information collected is transformed into a useful form for the customer
• Analyses how different workplace laboratories store and manage scientific information
• Analyses how different workplace laboratories communicate with each other and with external customers or regulatory bodies, explaining the purpose of doing so
• Comments on whether the way in which the information is communicated is fit for purpose and how it could improve.
• Explains and contrasts the benefits and the issues involved in obtaining, organising, retrieving, pooling and sharing specific types of scientific information
e.g. drug test results
• Explains the ethical and bioethical considerations associated with storage of scientific information that may be made available to a third party e.g. healthcare records
• Evaluates the challenges of storing and communicating large quantities of scientific information so that it can be retrieved and used

Attachment:- Laboratory Techniques.rar