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Does anyone have the Statstrip glucometer system from Nova Biomedical? I am close to starting a conversion from Roche to Nova, has anyone else done this and have any advice about making this a smooth conversion?
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We have NOVA meters. We have been very happy with them. It has been a long while since I have done a conversion but it was very smooth as NOVA helped with transition. They helped training and setting up the software and made sure that everything was completed before they left. We are actually trying to upgrade to their new meters currently.
I have had Nova StatStrip for 6 years. I was not a Roche conversion. I was a J&J conversion. Over all, I am very pleased with the meters function. They seem to match up with our Dimensions very well. Having said that, there are two bits of advice I would offer.
First, make sure you have plenty of spare meters. We have had a lot of issues with having to replace meters. Much more so than with our J&J Lifescan meters. We have lots of issues with the touch display becoming inoperable. From what I understand, the cable comes apart from the connector inside. We also have some issues with failures with strip detection.
Second, Nova says there is no need to sequester lots of strips. I do not find this to be the case. I find that there is usually a shift in QC between lots. I do establish my own mean and narrow the ranges with each new lot. I always have to adjust my mean when using a new lot of strips. I still sequester a years worth of strips at a time.
Hope that helps. I would also throw in that the Nova implementation team was great! Can't say enough positive about that experience. They are great about making sure you are where you need to be in the implementation and they worked well with Telcor to make sure everything went smoothly. Updates to NovaNet have always been a breeze and always go smoothly. Other than putting in new reagent lots, NovaNet just kind of functions in the background and I never really have to log in much.
Good luck with the change over. I think you will like Nova.
Carol Brown
Murray-Calloway County Hospital
We converted from the Inform I to Nova StatStrip in 2014 and are very pleased. The staff education and implementation was seamless. The team in the facility and working with RALS were great.
I agree that it is good to have spare meters. But tech support the turnaround time for meter replacements are excellent. We also made sure that each unit started out with the right number of meters; some increased their par by one before we switched.
We converted to the Nova wireless meters back in August after utilizing the Roche Inform II wireless meters.
We unfortunately have not had the best transition and have had many issues that our staff have been very displeased with.
Nova has been great with their customer support but unfortunately we have not been able to resolve our issues. Making it a very long 5 months.
Private message me and I can provide further details just too lengthy to type up.
We are also in the process of replacing our Roche Inform II with the Nova StatStrip meters. Haven't got a contract signed yet, so would love to hear any issues people are having and what to watch out for.
Thanks,
Brian
Sanford Medical Center
Are very many hospitals switching from Roche to Nova? Is it because of the Critically Ill issue or are you having other issues with Roche?
We have Nova Statstrip and they work very well. Nova is a good company to work with as well. Nova should help you with your transition to make it as smooth
as possible.
We converted to Nova from Roche 5-6 years ago. We also had many, many problems with meter returns, and found the need for many extra meters. However, we just converted to the wireless Nova meters about 4 months ago, and have only had to return 2 bad meters in 4 months, which is quite an improvement. We think they fixed many of their problems with these new meters.
I agree that the Nova implementation team is wonderful and helpful, as is the customer service, and turn around times for replacement meters is quick.
We found that if we gave too many meters to the floors they tended to lose them more often, so the way we in POC obtained more backup meters was to take some from the floors. Since controls need to be run every 24 hours, they tend to not want to run controls and use the meter(s) that have had them run already, so many floors don’t use as many meters as they think they will need. They hesitated to part with them, but once they were gone we never heard complaints about not having a meter when it was needed. It makes them keep track of them better and encourages them to keep them in the docks where the next person can find them.
Good luck. We are very happy with Nova.
Sue Brady Bagosy, BSMT (ASCP) POCS (AACC)
Point of Care Testing Specialist
Crozer Keystone Health System Hospital Laboratories
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It is because of the critically ill issue. Even though we are in the process of switching to Nova, we will still have to do non-waived competency to maintain compliance just because the process is taking so long.
Also curious to see what people are doing for maintaining nursing competency on their meters that are now considered non-waived. Was looking for a way to make-up a fake glucose sample that would last a few days. Anybody have any tips or suggestions on that?
Thanks,
Brian
We have considered the switch to Nova for the critical patient areas but Nova said all or none, shame on them. We cannot make the switch as one: the budget request was not approved for a full conversion and two: we have an all pediatric population and we would still need venous/arterial blood for our critical areas. Not conducive for our patients. We just have our respiratory dept perform glucose testing in our critical areas.
Our system looked at Nova meters approximately 5 years ago, when J&J exited the market. We invited end-users to assess both the Nova meters and Abbott. We noted the 'strip-sensing' error issues on the Nova meters within the first few tests. That gave me considerable pause as that would be a very frustrating feature for the end-user. The company's representatives did not really have an explanation. From the much more recent comments others have made here, it sounds like perhaps they have worked through some of their meter issues, but with what we observed during our evaluation fair, we chose Abbott PXP meters.
We transitioned from Inform II to Nova two days ago. The go live went great! The implementation group was amazing!
I recently started this position as POCC (< a month ago with no POC experience). I have a question for those who know the system. Please forgive me if the answer is obvious but how are you proving that you review Quality Control Data? Are you printing the reports?
HI Ashley
I just tell the inspectors that the meters are locked out if Qc is not performed once in a 24 hour period. I do review the QC daily, but I do not print daily. At the end of the month, I pull the L-J chart out of Telcor, for all point of care devices, I sign off on that as well as my Pathologist.
Hi Ashley,
We do the same thing that Laura does at our facility. Except, I do not look at QC daily I do review L-J charts monthly observe any trends. Comment thru my middleware on the L-J Charts. Sign a form saying QC was reviewed then send to Lab Manager where she reviews and states that I have reviewed it.
Ashley,
You should be able to document your review, daily and monthly, in your middleware. We use RALS - we select all QCs > click on "Review" > put in a comment "Daily review" or "Monthly review". You shouldn't have to print anything.