Multi-Purpose, Multi-Role POCCs?
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Very curious about other POCCs in multi-role positions. Wish we could make surveys here about common items, hot topics and trends.
Are any of you in charge of your facility's Proficiency Testing Program?
Other roles?
Still work the bench? How much?
Have backups or helpers?
Are you part of management/administration? salaried? non-union?
Do additional responsibilities cause slower responses to your facility's POCT needs?
Are any of you in charge of your facility's Proficiency Testing Program?
Other roles?
Still work the bench? How much?
Have backups or helpers?
Are you part of management/administration? salaried? non-union?
Do additional responsibilities cause slower responses to your facility's POCT needs?
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114 bed level 3 trauma center with extensive cardiac surgery program, specialized wound care center. I oversee five moderate complexity test systems and five waived test systems throughout. I am also in charge of the Proficiency Testing program. I have a manager backup for POCT and Proficiency Testing. I still work the bench at least 8 hours per week (every other weekend), often more due to staffing. Most hospital staff think that I am administration or management and are shocked when they find me in the lab. MLS Students are shocked when they train with me... "you know everyone and go everywhere!" Also thankful to be hourly. Knowing what I do now, I would refuse a salaried POCC position due to my concerns about the difficult workload that must be constantly re-balanced.
This is my sixth year in POCT and it seems to me that POCT is moving into its prime... very slowly. Equipment costs, reimbursements, regulatory challenges, staffing and lack of support have kept our field from growing faster, I think. It's painful but I'm glad I ended up in this very unique area of lab medicine. After growing my expertise in POCT I couldn't imagine working in a different one, despite all of the craziness of managing a program.
I really hope our industry moves towards more full-time hourly POCCs with more support. Seems like almost all of the POCCs I meet (especially at smaller facilities) feel very behind on their tasks. We have to keep advocating for support for our POCT programs and ourselves!
Currently responsible for 105 glucometers, 35 iSTATs using multiple non-waived cartridge types, 5 hemochron jr ACTs, 2 Avoximeters, 4 IDnows as well as manual testing across our hospital (>500 HCGs per month, >300 covid Ags per month), and now concerned about having to do all the training for moderately complex testing on >200 operators for multiple devices and that is before the current educators who are grandfathered in leave. How are others doing it?
Last year our system changed the structure of POC across all of the community hospitals. My position was
was changed into a system POC Supervisor position, and three full time regional POC Coordinator positions were created to manage POC across our 12 other community hospitals (before POC was managed by a lab bench tech at the community sites). The two people working with me at my site were also upgraded to POC Coordinators and no longer rotate through the lab. With all of the new requests/demands for POC testing, I only see this program expanding.
Last year our system changed the structure of POC across all of the community hospitals. My position was
was changed into a system POC Supervisor position, and three full time regional POC Coordinator positions were created to manage POC across our 12 other community hospitals (before POC was managed by a lab bench tech at the community sites). The two people working with me at my site were also upgraded to POC Coordinators and no longer rotate through the lab. With all of the new requests/demands for POC testing, I only see this program expanding.