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POCT:
Operator Competency
December 6, 2006
Hershey
Public Library
701 Cocoa Avenue, Hershey, PA
Hosted by
Marcy Anderson,
JoAnn Brehm, Stacey Cerminaro
Medical Automation Systems, Inc
Educational Session:
The
educational portion of the meeting focused on competency requirements
and methods for point of care testing. There were a total of five
speakers who presented.
JoAnn Brehm, BS, MT(HEW),
MLT(ASCP
Director of Training
Medical Automation Systems
CAP and JCAHO Overview
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Beverly McAllister, M.S., MT(ASCP)
SC
Laboratory
Operations Manager
Ephrata Community Hospital
Ephrata, PA
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Tim Deen, MT(HEW), MLT(ASCP)
Point of Care
Manger, Medical City Dallas Hospital, TX.
Tim has been in the Medical
Technology field for 30 years and utilizes RALS-eQuiz to assess
competency of ~1200 operators on multiple analyzers and manual testing
procedures.
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Karen Espey, MT(ASCP)
Supervisor of Point of Care Testing and Phlebotomy
Lancaster General Hospital
Lancaster, PA
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Diana DeHoyos MS, MT(ASCP)
Diana is the POCC at
the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. In 2002, AACC
awarded Diana the POCT Coordinator of the Year. Diana is part of a
two-person POCC team that manages over 2000 users in the POCT program
at the UTMB.
Diana has developed her own
“home grown”
online competency tests for
various POC tests and online proficiency testing of PPMP using digital
images. Her publications have appeared in The Journal of
Near-Patient Testing & Technology and ADVANCE for
Administrators of the Laboratory. |
Robert
Wood, MT
Point of Care Coordinator,
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Lebanon, PA |
Business
Meeting
Treasurer’s Report
| Money Market
Account |
$4,092.87 |
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Checking Account |
$4,221.32 |
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Total |
$8,314.19 |
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From left
to right: Carrie Bell, Hershey Med Ctr, PA Secretary; Stacey
Cerminaro, MAS Treasurer; Cindy Graves, Gettysburg Hospital
Vice President; Rick Lebo, Lifescan, KEYPOCC 2007 President
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KEYPOCC Board of Directors Meeting Scheduled
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December 19, 2006 at Ephrata Community Hospital
Ambulance Room B
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All are welcome. New officers are requested to come.
Evaluation of September 2006 Meeting – CAP and
JCAHO POCT Regulations
The
attendees rated the meeting very high in all regards and had only
positive comments about the meeting itself. One constructive comment was
that vendors should turn their cell phones off.
Meeting dates/hosts/topics for 2007
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Date |
Host (Location) |
Topic |
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March 21, 2007 |
Terry
Hawkins (Christiana) |
Coagulation |
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June 20, 2007 |
Chris Fetters (Hershey Park Family Day) |
TBD |
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Sept 19, 2007 |
Rick,
Dawn/Jen (TBD) |
CAP Checklist Changes |
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December 5, 2007 |
Terry Hawkins/Adonica Wilson (Longwood Gardens) |
TBD |
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March 2008 |
Joint
meeting with Baltimore/NJ POCC groups and AACC???? |
Vendor Fairs – How do we decide which vendors
can/should participate?
This is usually based upon the topic, but there should be guidelines as
to who can participate. We could make it based on sponsorship with those
vendors who donate to KEYPOCC for a particular meeting being allowed a
display table. The KEYPOCC BOD will discuss the issue further at the
December 19, 2006 meeting.
Reminder to Meeting Hosts to list the Sponsors
on the invitation
Stacey Cerminaro wanted to remind the group that hosts should always
list the sponsors of the meeting on the invitation as an acknowledgment
of their contribution.
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