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Kathleen David posted a reply on Re: Competency assesments

Tuesday, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:39 PM

Said: : "Is this all under the same CLIA, or does pulmonary have a separate CLIA? The medical director who holds the CLIA is responsible for assessing competency of any testing personnel under that CLIA. Your operator definitely qualifies as testi...

Zechariah Fortuna posted a reply on Re: Competency assesments

Tuesday, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:38 PM

Said: : "Your CLIA Lab Director should qualify as a TC and may need to perform the assessments until there is someone else that they could delegate the task to."

Juan Cabrera posted a reply on Re: Competency vs. Training

Tuesday, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:25 PM

Said: : "Probably most of you got this. If not, here is an E-alert from TJC. https://www.jointcommission.org/standards_information/jcfaqdetails.aspx?StandardsFAQChapterId=99&StandardsFAQId=2017"

Jill Dwyer posted a new Topic

Tuesday, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:04 PM

Competency assesments

: "Hi All - I'm a pretty new POCC (March 2019) starting the POC program at my large clinic (POC testing has been going on for years, but no one was ever in charge and it's just a big mess). Anyway, I recently found out that our pulmonary department has been running the moderate complexity CG4 test for Arterial Blood Gas on the Abbott iSTAT for year..."

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Chris Caron posted a reply on Re: Full site competencies for techs that float

Tuesday, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:27 AM

Said: : "Per our CLIA inspector, we do have to complete full competencies at each site on everything, even if same kit, test format, etc. We may just look at some of our staffing practices, but we have to have flexibility in coveri g too, so I wi...