POC staff vs size of facility
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I am looking at justifying my hospital creating another POC position (potentially a part time,) and am trying to get a baseline for what other similar facilities have in the way of POC staff.
How large is the scope of your POC program and how many POC staff do you have?
I am currently the POC coordinator at my facility, I have NO other POC staff.
I am at a 350 bed hospital.
Not counting waived testing, I manage a little over 300 staff that run moderately complex testing.
This is mostly istat testing occurring in ED and NICU.
I am also over blood gas instruments for respiratory, OR, and CATH lab.
This is partially in response to the new CLIA requirements for technical consultants that will prevent me from delegating competency assessment to nurses in each department. Which is what I have been doing up to now.
How large is the scope of your POC program and how many POC staff do you have?
I am currently the POC coordinator at my facility, I have NO other POC staff.
I am at a 350 bed hospital.
Not counting waived testing, I manage a little over 300 staff that run moderately complex testing.
This is mostly istat testing occurring in ED and NICU.
I am also over blood gas instruments for respiratory, OR, and CATH lab.
This is partially in response to the new CLIA requirements for technical consultants that will prevent me from delegating competency assessment to nurses in each department. Which is what I have been doing up to now.
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How to you organize the competencies for so many people? Do you have set classes?
Do you have any redundancy for your program then? Another one of my problems is that I currently don’t have a great back up so if i suddenly needed to go on leave, the hospital would be in trouble.
When I went on maternity leave 3 years ago I had to train someone to cover me. Lots has changed since then though and really I wouldn't have someone to cover me if I was out for any significant length of time. It is just so hard to keep someone up to date on everything if they are not working in POC regularly. Its not an ideal situation AT ALL, but I make it work.
I’m hoping that since there are a few other misc needs in our lab that’s enough to get someone partially assigned to POC even if they’re also doing other things. No one is happy that have currently have zero back up- and most of the units don’t currently have anything like “skill days” set up, making the change in CLIA requirements for competency assessment very impactful.