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*TS: 5 Sure-Fire Methods: Maintaining Records for Waived Testing[®] [REF: MD, RN, StEd] The Source, April 2014, Vol 12, #4, Pg 2 #JCs1404_B3
This article provides 5 recommendations for improving the documentation needed to comply with WT.05.01.01. Most of these are fairly mundane (e.g., Review the requirements) but they did include a very useful reference [Pearl] from the CDC entitled Ready? Set? Test! This 58-page booklet contains guidelines, tips, reminders, forms and other resources to setting up waived testing and having everything needed in place. The article also provided insights from two TJC staffers on the following common reasons for compliance failures related to this standard:
1 – Failure to document internal quality control and/or doing so with the use of check marks for both positive and negative results, without defining which they are to represent
2 – Failure to include normal ranges along with patient test results
3 – Failure to record lot numbers needed for linking a test result to the reagent and/or instrument used
4 – Failure to actually record the test result in the record (often because the record was not immediately available or had no clearly defined place in it for documenting the result)
Tip: Check your waived testing practices for the common failures referenced above
Tip: Download the Ready? Set? Test! Booklet and incorporate the CDC’s free Online Course into periodic, basic training to help improve the performance (i.e., safety and accuracy) of your testing personnel. The 30-45 minute course qualifies for continuing education credit (CME/1.0, CNE/1.0, CEU/0.1 and CPD/0.1) at no additional cost. See Comments for more details.
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One response to “RTN1404_B3_WT.05.01.01”
• It only took me 30 min to take the course, get some useful info, pass the test (80% correct) and obtain my CME certificate. However, be aware it also took me 10 minutes to register with CDC TRAIN National in order to take the test. All in all, it was worth it.
• TRAIN (or Training Finder Real-time Affiliated Integrated Network) is a free service of Public Health Foundation and operates through collaborative partnerships with state and federal agencies, local and national. It is a unique web-based platform that provides a robust clearinghouse of on-site training and distance learning opportunities. All the courses are free! I highly recommend that Staff and Nursing Educators/trainings become familiar with this resource.