Point-of-Care Webinar Series
Watch: POCT Coordination: Managing Your Sanity as Your Program Expands—December 3, 2019
Point-of-care-testing (POCT) is a rapidly expanding means of delivering laboratory testing closer to the patient. POCT offers faster turnaround of results with the potential for improved patient care. However, quality concerns, meeting laboratory regulations, and maintaining clinical staff competencies have challenged POCT programs. With additional requests for POCT services, programs struggle to maintain quality in an ever-expanding environment. This session will explore the challenges faced by current POCT programs and will offer tips to better manage your program and your sanity.
Learning Objectives:
This basic-level, complimentary webinar is produced by Whitehat Communications. Whitehat Communications is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program.
About the Speaker:
Learning Objectives:
- Identify POCT market trends.
- Examine quality concerns with POCT.
- Discuss a POCT program’s role in maintaining quality.
- Identify helpful tips for managing POCT.
This basic-level, complimentary webinar is produced by Whitehat Communications. Whitehat Communications is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program.
About the Speaker:
|
James Nichols is a Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and the Medical Director of Clinical Chemistry and Point-of-Care Testing at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dr. Nichols received his bachelor’s degree in general biology/pre-medicine from Revelle College at the University of California San Diego. He went on to complete a master’s degree and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was then a fellow in the Postdoctoral Training Program in Clinical Chemistry at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Nichols is board certified in both clinical chemistry and toxicological chemistry by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. He spent several years as the Associate Director of Clinical Chemistry, Director of Point-of-Care Testing, and an Associate Professor of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Dr. Nichols later served as Medical Director of Clinical Chemistry for Baystate Health in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was a Professor of Pathology at Tufts University School of Medicine. His research interests span evidence-based medicine, information management, laboratory automation, point-of-care testing, and toxicology. |
Orchard Software is a proud sponsor of this P.A.C.E®-accredited opportunity on behalf of
Whitehat Communications
We thank the KEYPOCC Keystone Point-of-Care Coordinators for their commitment to supporting continuing education.
|
|
|