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Angela Garner posted a new Topic

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2022 at 11:17 AM

Signing off as Designee on PT Survey for Moderately Complex POCT

Good Morning- I am interested to hear how this group is handling delegating down the authority from the medical director to a designee for signing as the designee on PT surveys. Does the person being deemed down this authority to sign as the designee need to meet the qualifications of a Technical Consultant?
Thanks
Angela

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Peggy Mann posted a reply on Re: Training Vs. Competency for Moderately Comp...

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2022 at 10:36 AM

Said: Agree nonwaived competency needs to be established - initially - in order to determine if the employee/tester is competent to independently perform the test as required.Whereas competency assessment (evaluation) requirement is...

Anne Gaffney posted a reply on Re: ED "Lab" instrumentation

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2022 at 9:54 AM

Said: Hi Pam. We no longer have Chem POC in the main hospital EDs. All are sent to main lab. In the Freestanding EDs, we have the same instrumentation as Ashlee.

Karla Frink posted a reply on Re: Training Vs. Competency for Moderately Comp...

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2022 at 9:53 AM

Said: Competency needs to be evaluated initially as well as 6 and 12 months. :)

Ashlee Fells posted a reply on Re: ED "Lab" instrumentation

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2022 at 9:21 AM

Said: Hi Pam. We have 2 freestanding ER's and we have a Sysmex POCHi instrument to perform CBC's and the Piccolo instruments for the chemistries. The Piccolo does have some waived cartridges, but if you want to have Lactic Acid te...