Re: [Histonet] RE: Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
On Wednesday (yesterday), there was a CAP teleconference on the to-be-updated (to be posted end of July 2013) AP checklist. Someone asked a question about this, mentioning that someone from CAP had said competency assessment does not apply to histology. The reply from the presenter and the CAP office people who could also respond was that competency assess does apply to histology, but that some of the 6 components that have to be checked for may not apply for some or most of the histotech jobs. So if a component of competency doesn't apply, then it doesn't have to be evaluated. Below is part of the standard: GEN.55500 Competency Assessment Phase II The competency of each person to perform his/her assigned duties is assessed. NOTE: The competency of each person to perform the duties assigned must be assessed following training before the person performs patient testing.Thereafter, during the first year of an individual's duties, competency must be assessed at least semiannually. After an individual has performed his/her duties for one year, competency must be assessed annually. Retraining and reassessment of employee competency must occur when problems are identified with employee performance. Elements of competency assessment include but are not limited to: 1. Direct observations of routine patient test performance, including, as applicable, patient identification and preparation; and specimen collection, handling, processing and testing 2. Monitoring the recording and reporting of test results, including, as applicable, reporting critical results 3. Review of intermediate test results or worksheets, quality control records, proficiency testing results, and preventive maintenance records 4. Direct observation of performance of instrument maintenance and function checks 5. Assessment of test performance through testing previously analyzed specimens, internal blind testing samples or external proficiency testing samples; and 6. Evaluation of problem-solving skills These are the 6 components, all of which must be assessed for every task done by histotech - except if it doesn't apply. So, for example, if you are assessing the competency of sectioning, then #2 - reporting of critical values, and #5 - blind testing samples - doesn't apply, so you don't need to assess via #2 and #5. But you would have to assess the person microtoming via the other 4 types of assessment. (But if you are participating in HistoQIP, microtomy is being assess via external proficiency testing sample, so if some of your people's slides were evaluated, you actually have #5 covered for microtomy). So every aspect of the histotech's job (and the lab assistant) must be assessed by as many of the 6 elements above as apply to each task. CAP says we must assess competency, Joint Commission says we must assess competency, and CLIA says we must assess competency, and the 6 elements come from CLIA. So we must assess competency. Peggy A. Wenk, HTL(ASCP)SLS William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI 48073 The opinions expressed are mine, and do not reflect on my hospital. -Original Message- From: Michelle Lamphere Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 9:10 AM To: 'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu' Cc: Elma Cortinas Subject: [Histonet] RE: Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology I think a few people might find this interesting I recently attended a class about Competency Assessments in the lab. The class was given by Ken Byrd (fairly certain that is how you spell his name), a Senior Inspector at CAP. When this particular question came up, I asked him to give examples of how the histology lab was supposed to use the 6 elements to assess competency. He informed the entire class that the competency assessment question with the six elements did not apply to the histology lab because histology did not report test results. It is the one question on the Gen Lab checklist that did not apply to ANP. Kinda shocking, I know. It does not mean that we scrapped our entire competency program, we simply removed some of the six elements. Michelle Lamphere Senior Tech, Histology Anatomic Pathology Children's Medical Center O: 214.456.2318 | Fax: 214.456.0779 E: michelle.lamph...@childrens.com 1935 Medical District Drive | B1.06 | Dallas, Texas 75235 Message: 9 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:14:08 -0400 From: Histology hi...@pathlab.us Subject: [Histonet] Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Message-ID: 9C0B151B30AC5F4ABFD1B69D915F84CF33E6D4@dc01.DominionPath.local Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, I would love to see your competency spreadsheet for histology. We just finished our first CAP inspection and got a deficiency here. He said the direct observation was great, but that we need to have all 6 elements. I am having trouble trying to come up with a way to evaluate some of these and would love any help
RE: [Histonet] RE: Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Thanks Peggy. I appreciate this, I hate to think we were taking a step back... Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC From: lpw...@sbcglobal.net To: michelle.lamph...@childrens.com; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 06:14:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [Histonet] RE: Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology CC: elma.corti...@childrens.com On Wednesday (yesterday), there was a CAP teleconference on the to-be-updated (to be posted end of July 2013) AP checklist. Someone asked a question about this, mentioning that someone from CAP had said competency assessment does not apply to histology. The reply from the presenter and the CAP office people who could also respond was that competency assess does apply to histology, but that some of the 6 components that have to be checked for may not apply for some or most of the histotech jobs. So if a component of competency doesn't apply, then it doesn't have to be evaluated. Below is part of the standard: GEN.55500 Competency Assessment Phase II The competency of each person to perform his/her assigned duties is assessed. NOTE: The competency of each person to perform the duties assigned must be assessed following training before the person performs patient testing.Thereafter, during the first year of an individual's duties, competency must be assessed at least semiannually. After an individual has performed his/her duties for one year, competency must be assessed annually. Retraining and reassessment of employee competency must occur when problems are identified with employee performance. Elements of competency assessment include but are not limited to: 1. Direct observations of routine patient test performance, including, as applicable, patient identification and preparation; and specimen collection, handling, processing and testing 2. Monitoring the recording and reporting of test results, including, as applicable, reporting critical results 3. Review of intermediate test results or worksheets, quality control records, proficiency testing results, and preventive maintenance records 4. Direct observation of performance of instrument maintenance and function checks 5. Assessment of test performance through testing previously analyzed specimens, internal blind testing samples or external proficiency testing samples; and 6. Evaluation of problem-solving skills These are the 6 components, all of which must be assessed for every task done by histotech - except if it doesn't apply. So, for example, if you are assessing the competency of sectioning, then #2 - reporting of critical values, and #5 - blind testing samples - doesn't apply, so you don't need to assess via #2 and #5. But you would have to assess the person microtoming via the other 4 types of assessment. (But if you are participating in HistoQIP, microtomy is being assess via external proficiency testing sample, so if some of your people's slides were evaluated, you actually have #5 covered for microtomy). So every aspect of the histotech's job (and the lab assistant) must be assessed by as many of the 6 elements above as apply to each task. CAP says we must assess competency, Joint Commission says we must assess competency, and CLIA says we must assess competency, and the 6 elements come from CLIA. So we must assess competency. Peggy A. Wenk, HTL(ASCP)SLS William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI 48073 The opinions expressed are mine, and do not reflect on my hospital. -Original Message- From: Michelle Lamphere Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 9:10 AM To: 'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu' Cc: Elma Cortinas Subject: [Histonet] RE: Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology I think a few people might find this interesting I recently attended a class about Competency Assessments in the lab. The class was given by Ken Byrd (fairly certain that is how you spell his name), a Senior Inspector at CAP. When this particular question came up, I asked him to give examples of how the histology lab was supposed to use the 6 elements to assess competency. He informed the entire class that the competency assessment question with the six elements did not apply to the histology lab because histology did not report test results. It is the one question on the Gen Lab checklist that did not apply to ANP. Kinda shocking, I know. It does not mean that we scrapped our entire competency program, we simply removed some of the six elements. Michelle Lamphere Senior Tech, Histology Anatomic Pathology Children's Medical Center O: 214.456.2318 | Fax: 214.456.0779 E: michelle.lamph...@childrens.com 1935 Medical District Drive | B1.06 | Dallas, Texas 75235 Message: 9 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:14:08 -0400 From: Histology hi...@pathlab.us Subject: [Histonet] Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at To: histonet
RE: [Histonet] RE: Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
We do the blinded sample part. Our manager has us look at an HE stained slide and we identify the tissue (basic histo) and we are asked what stain is appropriate for the tissue (special stain or IHC) Bernice Frederick HTL (ASCP) Senior Research Tech Pathology Core Facility ECOGPCO-RL Robert. H. Lurie Cancer Center Northwestern University 710 N Fairbanks Court Olson 8-421 Chicago,IL 60611 312-503-3723 b-freder...@northwestern.edu -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Lee Peggy Wenk Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 5:14 AM To: Michelle Lamphere; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Cc: Elma Cortinas Subject: Re: [Histonet] RE: Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology On Wednesday (yesterday), there was a CAP teleconference on the to-be-updated (to be posted end of July 2013) AP checklist. Someone asked a question about this, mentioning that someone from CAP had said competency assessment does not apply to histology. The reply from the presenter and the CAP office people who could also respond was that competency assess does apply to histology, but that some of the 6 components that have to be checked for may not apply for some or most of the histotech jobs. So if a component of competency doesn't apply, then it doesn't have to be evaluated. Below is part of the standard: GEN.55500 Competency Assessment Phase II The competency of each person to perform his/her assigned duties is assessed. NOTE: The competency of each person to perform the duties assigned must be assessed following training before the person performs patient testing.Thereafter, during the first year of an individual's duties, competency must be assessed at least semiannually. After an individual has performed his/her duties for one year, competency must be assessed annually. Retraining and reassessment of employee competency must occur when problems are identified with employee performance. Elements of competency assessment include but are not limited to: 1. Direct observations of routine patient test performance, including, as applicable, patient identification and preparation; and specimen collection, handling, processing and testing 2. Monitoring the recording and reporting of test results, including, as applicable, reporting critical results 3. Review of intermediate test results or worksheets, quality control records, proficiency testing results, and preventive maintenance records 4. Direct observation of performance of instrument maintenance and function checks 5. Assessment of test performance through testing previously analyzed specimens, internal blind testing samples or external proficiency testing samples; and 6. Evaluation of problem-solving skills These are the 6 components, all of which must be assessed for every task done by histotech - except if it doesn't apply. So, for example, if you are assessing the competency of sectioning, then #2 - reporting of critical values, and #5 - blind testing samples - doesn't apply, so you don't need to assess via #2 and #5. But you would have to assess the person microtoming via the other 4 types of assessment. (But if you are participating in HistoQIP, microtomy is being assess via external proficiency testing sample, so if some of your people's slides were evaluated, you actually have #5 covered for microtomy). So every aspect of the histotech's job (and the lab assistant) must be assessed by as many of the 6 elements above as apply to each task. CAP says we must assess competency, Joint Commission says we must assess competency, and CLIA says we must assess competency, and the 6 elements come from CLIA. So we must assess competency. Peggy A. Wenk, HTL(ASCP)SLS William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI 48073 The opinions expressed are mine, and do not reflect on my hospital. -Original Message- From: Michelle Lamphere Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 9:10 AM To: 'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu' Cc: Elma Cortinas Subject: [Histonet] RE: Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology I think a few people might find this interesting I recently attended a class about Competency Assessments in the lab. The class was given by Ken Byrd (fairly certain that is how you spell his name), a Senior Inspector at CAP. When this particular question came up, I asked him to give examples of how the histology lab was supposed to use the 6 elements to assess competency. He informed the entire class that the competency assessment question with the six elements did not apply to the histology lab because histology did not report test results. It is the one question on the Gen Lab checklist that did not apply to ANP. Kinda shocking, I know. It does not mean that we scrapped our entire competency program, we simply removed some of the six elements. Michelle Lamphere Senior Tech, Histology Anatomic Pathology Children's Medical Center O
