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Jessica Lang posted a reply on Re: Operator competency: calendar year

Tuesday, Jun 14, 2022 at 2:46 PM

Said: Hi Donna. We also have certain departments that certify during different months throughout the year. We keep a spreadsheet of who is do when and then set up training dates with each department. We do spread them out over the year since ...

Gloria MacLean posted a new Topic

Tuesday, Jun 14, 2022 at 2:39 PM

Validating new shipments of EPOC cards

What does everyone do with regard to validating a new shipment of EPOC cards?

I was reviewing our EPOC procedure today (written by my predecessor) and discovered that what's in the procedure differs from what they've had me doing for the past 5 years!

The procedure (directly from the operator's manual) says: "From each lot in each shipment of cards, analyze at least two (2) levels of aqueous controls using one reader."
I have been running all 6 levels of QC (3 gas/metabo...

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Anissa Shoemaker has joined the group.

Tuesday, Jun 14, 2022 at 2:28 PM

Anissa is Lab System Quality Coordinator works at Wellstar Health System

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Donna Armstrong liked a reply on topic Re: Operator competency: calendar year

Tuesday, Jun 14, 2022 at 1:45 PM

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Ken Charpie posted a reply on Re: Operator competency: calendar year

Tuesday, Jun 14, 2022 at 1:35 PM

Said: We start annual competencies in Aug and each month there are one or more units with competencies due. There is no way you can get an entire hospital done in one month, so staggering training over about 6 months helps us. By the time I'v...