From: "Lynn Hadaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DAVID LONGSETH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Annual PICC competency ?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:10:52 -0400
Annual competency should be tied to clinical outcomes and should fluctuate
based on changes in those outcomes. So I would look at the problems you are
having now, create an improvement plan that includes competency
demonstration related to that aspect, then reevaluate your plan at a
specific period. Simply performing a procedure under observance is does not
truly accomplish the goal of performance improvement. So what are your PICC
outcomes? Create your clinical competency assessment program around those
problems.
The professional growth and participation parts are good ideas for the
individual's performance evaluation. Lynn
At 5:39 PM -0500 5/19/06, DAVID LONGSETH wrote:
I have been tasked with writing our team's annual competency and would
welcome some ideas and feedback from this group.
I have it broken down into 3 areas--performance,participation and
professional growth. Performance meaning 1) a minimum of 20 successful
insertions in the past year and a success record of not less than 80%;2)
1-2 insertions observed by one of our "proficient" inserters--essentially
me or our CNS.
Participation meaning attending 75% of our monthly meetings. Professional
growth meaning a minimum of CEU's per year and/or an educational
presentation at one of the meetings and/or writing an article for our
hospital's monthly paper.
What I aspire to acheive is a higher degree of professionalism within the
group of PICC'ers, a group which unfortunately was essentially a
'picc-stick-and-run' mess two years ago.
--
Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RNC, CRNI
Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.
126 Main Street, PO Box 10
Milner, GA 30257
http://www.hadawayassociates.com
office 770-358-7861
