Operator competency: calendar year
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Hello! We recently transitioned from the initial/interim/yearly training dates for operators to CAP's competency assessment once per calendar year after initial training is done. Our goal is to assign each department a month to complete their assessments, but with the new expiration dates defaulting to 12/31/23 (set in Telcor), we are concerned that operators will ignore our requests to complete assessments without seeing a message in the iSTAT (which will lock them out). Trying to complete everyone at the end of the year will be a nightmare. Has anyone switched to a similar management or is this not worth the trouble?
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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've finished one year's paperwork it's just about time to roll over to the next and start all over again. It is a lot to keep track of, so I have made documents that live on my bulletin board above my desk that outline which units are due for what and when... along with the year's schedule of calibration and correlation dates. I try to spread everything out throughout the year as much as possible so that no single month is completely unbearable.
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 we manage over 8000 users and it works well. We also have Telcor and haven't had an issue with setting their dates for one year. They do tend to ignore the messages on the istat and the Nova meters though:)
I am curious what you guys do for the 6 month competencies
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