Assistant POCC

Shannon,

I do have an assistant.  A non-med tech so her duties are mostly the "leg work".  Examples:  going to the units when they call with meter issues, trouble shooting meter issues, calling for replacements, shipping back broken equipment, validating new meters, logging and QCing new shipments of reagents and QC material, pulling monthly QC reports from middleware, monthly reagent checks on the units, taking the routine QC material to the units for staff to perform, assisting with annual recertification, and entering/ updating operator IDs in the middleware. 

That sounds consistent with my duties. Thanks for responding, Mary. It's good to know I'm on the right track!

Aloha Shannon,

I also have a non med-tech assistant as well: he helps a lot with clerical items (monthly reports, etc) and signage notifications, inventory control, audits, troubleshooting temp nodes, CAP assignemnts.  We took away QC duties because our previous TJC inspector pointed out that only testing personnel can perform QC.

Mahalo, Shana,

How does your assistant help with CAP assignments? It sounds like we have basically the same duties. 

Right now, my responsibilities are:

AccuChek maintenance (up to and inclusive of calling Roche for replacements), linearity testing.

Reconciling RALS results that won't upload.

Monthly physicians' office checks - auditing temperature and patient logs for any missing or errant data, checking that supplies aren't out of date, verifying thermometers, chart checks, etc.

Entering and verifying hemoccult tests performed in the hospital.