Competency Test Assessment for staff floating under multiple CLIA Certifications
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If you have POCT users who float to the units under different CLIA certifications in the same organization, could you please share how you manage their competency test assessment on the same instrument on the same test, for example, the glucose meter?
1. Do they have a separate competency test for the glucose meter under each CLIA?
2. How do you manage their user ID under the same organization?
3. Which middleware do you use to monitor the user's certification status?
Thank you so much for your help!
1. Do they have a separate competency test for the glucose meter under each CLIA?
2. How do you manage their user ID under the same organization?
3. Which middleware do you use to monitor the user's certification status?
Thank you so much for your help!
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What do you require for annual recertification competency (glucometer - waived)?
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Given that the regulatory requirements are much more lenient for the waived testing competencies... I know that some facilities require the user to just run QC once within the year and be automatically recertified or similar. This however can allow users that may have developed bad habits over the year to continue them, or staff that has performed only 1 test in the past 11 months to be recertified.
Our goal is for a known user of skill and knowledge (SuperUser) to review with the person being reciertied to mitigate the above. Ideally this person would be a POC coordinator, however we just don't have the staff for this so we rely largely on nursing leadership to identify these glucometer SuperUsers.
We have a elearning specifically designed to educate the SuperUsers on the correct steps to recerty the user, last step being to contact the lab to update the user.
I like your idea regarding superusers. I think our clinical educators have their plates full with all other nursing education requirements.
Would it be possible for you to send me a transcript of your superuser elearning? I would like to see what you've done and possibly use a modification for our hospital.