Quality Control
3 followers
0 Likes
Our main hospital POC program has been doing all the QC for the floors for years, instead of having the people who run the tests do the QC. I am not sure how they have not been cited for it. Does anyone have a best practice for this? Main hospital is about 400 beds with lots of POC devices.
2 Replies
I would suggest for starters have the end users do the QC while the POC watches,. So that it is done correctly. For ACT the QC has to be reconstituted and it is not the same as running a patient. Educate them that the end users have to do QC and eventually they will. It takes time, but they will get it. At first limit who does the QC so it is not a bigger issue, but have a representative amount of staff rotating.
It definitely takes time and patience. Our POC 30 QC day is always the first Monday of the month. Each department is responsible for running their own QC. My OR is very good at running QC independently, however I struggle with Cath Lab and ICUs. I bring schedule a time with them in the morning and bring them QC and observe them so I can assist if they have issues with technique. I get a lot of pushback but they would rather have the QC done than have their devices lockout. In a perfect world, I would love to just assign it to a charge nurse and have them handle it or delegate it every month but I have not had the luck yet. However, I perform QC on new shipments since I have to add them to RALS. We keep our POC supplies in our Lab store room and the departments pick up from the lab to replenish their depts as needed.
Reply
Subgroup Membership is required to post Replies
Join POCT Listserv now
Suggested Posts
| Topic | Replies | Likes | Views | Participants | Last Reply |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piccolo express | 3 | 0 | 247 | ||
| Quantra | 5 | 0 | 326 | ||
| PPM Procedures/Resources | 5 | 0 | 242 |