POC Training/Competency Assessments

We don't have slots. We have a schedule. 

We share with the the units

I do a general POCT PP presentation (Virtual for right now) at our Ambulatory Orientation every other week. For in person POCT (assessing competency) I do that when a site requests. We are looking at the idea of having POCT competency assessed at Ambulatory Orientation (on a day 2) in the future. 
For annual competency the employees do that in their birth month so it's not a set schedule. 
I did work at another organization where initial training was on a set schedule-  Glucometers on Monday, manual testing on Tuesday, etc. New employees where scheduled for the classes that they need in advance. 
Annual Competencies were done by "Skills Days" that happened at each hospital once or twice a month. 

Training: I have a set schedule for moderate test training. We use SignupGenius and work with the RN educators to get new hires signed up. Twice a month on the regular Tuesday slots and Thursday slots for gases (epoc and RP500), O2 Sat (AVOX) and ACT (Hemochron). We offer train the trainer for all waived test methods. Each site will need 2 trainers. The first year I did this, it was by Scheduled Webex appointment on the regular.  It took almost 4 months to complete. Now we only hold them by requests, refreshing or new trainers. 

Competencies: All moderate testing competencies are performed by the RN educator for that area. POC has worked one on one with each RN educator and schedule a "once a year/each test method" shadow of them performing the competency. All waived testing competencies are performed by the train the trainer graduates. POC does not shadow waived testing competencies.

Coming from a smaller facility, just over 200 certified users. For new hires, i meet with them on the 2nd and 4th week of the month. For yearly certification we have a skills fair in January, February. The six month for the new hires is set up accordingly.

 

We have about 2,500 operators and everyone is on a schedule! Ambulatory in May/June; ED & ICU areas in July; Med/Surg, OR, Endovascular in August; PPM in September. All quizzes are e-learning through our workday site, and QC is observed by the educator of the unit. We hold 1-2 comps days each for ambulatory and endovascular locations, and observe on PPM as needed since the department chairs are not always capable of meeting that demand. Hope this helps!