Competency assessment clarification - mod and highly complex
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Hi everyone -
Asking a question for a friend who's being inspected right now. Looking for interpretive help for CLIA and CAP guidelines.
Say I've worked in the hospital lab for 20 years, performing waived, mod, and highly complex testing. I'm also qualified to be a competency assessor for multiple departments. Heme brings in a new coag instrument from a different manufacturer. I get trained on it and then like normal, have my annual competency assessment for everything I do, 1 year later.
Should I have had a 6 month and 1 year competency on this platform because it's new to me, even though I've been performing this type of testing for 20 years? Or does the CLIA reg apply to "new" employees only?
Asking a question for a friend who's being inspected right now. Looking for interpretive help for CLIA and CAP guidelines.
Say I've worked in the hospital lab for 20 years, performing waived, mod, and highly complex testing. I'm also qualified to be a competency assessor for multiple departments. Heme brings in a new coag instrument from a different manufacturer. I get trained on it and then like normal, have my annual competency assessment for everything I do, 1 year later.
Should I have had a 6 month and 1 year competency on this platform because it's new to me, even though I've been performing this type of testing for 20 years? Or does the CLIA reg apply to "new" employees only?
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There is a gray area for this requirement from what I see in this conversation.
New System Initiates - "Initial, 6month, yearly " Is what I believe is the thought is.
The best advice is to ask CAP directly.
I'll have to see where they left things and we will need to contact CAP.