Mobile Units and POCT

Hi Liz, 
We have a similar situation here--there is a PET Scan mobile unit that provides services at the different facilities that are part of our organization. The only difference is that this mobile unit is part of, and is staffed with our Nuclear Medicine department. Therefore, they are under our laboratory CLIA certificates, and we have been managing their training, competencies and quality assurance in general. This PET Scan mobile unit uses our glucose meters and iSTAT to provide glucose and creatinine respectively. Both analyzers and interfaced to our medical record, therefore, they are in our rotation list for software upgrades and other regulatory requirements. 
We also have other mobile medical units such as the ECMO Resuscitation team and Organ Transplant Research Team that perform iSTAT testing, however, they are private entities, and even though we support them with the required iSTAT software upgrades, their test results do not interface to our LIS, and we don't manage their instrument and staff quality assurance and competencies. From the beginning, we advised them to get a CLIA certificate so they can manage their own operations.

It's not exactly the same, but we have contract dialysis nurses and techs that come onsite.  They have to go through initial and annual hospital safety training (fire, amber alert, etc.) so I tack my glucose meter training and competency checklists to assign at the same time.  Make sure you have their credentials available if needed.  I had to really push to get our HR to request and keep their PSVs on hand.