Point of Care Coordinator (POCC)

PIONEERS MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE DISTRICT Brawley, California, United States Medical

About this position

  1. Maintains CDPH Lab Registration and CLIA certificates for all clinics
  2. Orients and trains personnel; ensuring ongoing competency.
    1. Adds new users to RALS System, prints barcodes for all employees. The barcodes are also used by Pyxis, Welch Allyn and other systems that may require user ID.
  • IVC Students
  • New Hire – RN, LVN, MA
  1. Recertifies existing users -annual
  2. Glucometer training occurs every other week and takes approximately 1 hour depending on the class size.  Clinitek training takes about 30 minutes per group.  Preparation for training requires 1-1.5 hours.  
  1. Provides technical, scientific, and management oversight for POCT performed throughout the hospital to meet/exceed accreditation standards. This includes establishing test system performance characteristics, ensuring all areas are performing the testing accurately and according to guidelines, reviewing/evaluating QC sheets, resolving technical problems and ensuring that remedial/corrective actions are taken.
  2. Works with nursing, physicians, employees, and management as needed to ensure POCT is ran efficiently and effectively.
  3. Maintains and monitors comprehensive preventive maintenance records, quality control, quality assurance and as needed proficiency testing (PT) programs for clinics or departments that perform waived testing.
    1. All hospital departments use glucometers
    2. Clinitek Device
      1. PHC
      2. SHAP
      3. CDLD
      4. WHAP
      5. Calexico
      6. ER
      7. PCHC
      8. OB (requested)
    3. New requests for POC Coagulation testing –clinics
    4. PT requires about an hour total for each hospital location and includes providing the testing materials, entering data and accepting data on the CAP PT website.
  4. Reviews RALS system for any flagged and/or critical results on a daily basis.
  5. Writes QRR for POC related issues.
    1. 20 minutes, occurs occasionally
  6. Maintains interface between LIS and POC device.
  7. Troubleshoots and maintains POC device
    1. This generally takes at least 30 minutes for each call.  Complex problems may take several hours to resolve.  These situations occur at least 2-3 times per week and sometimes multiple times per day given the number of locations where service is provided.
  8. Performs linearity on new glucometer device.
  9. Writes/reviews POCT policies and procedures.
    1. P&P take 30 minutes to an hour to write.   Review with no changes would take 10-15 minutes.

Salary Information

$47.56 - $72.97 Hourly Wage