Overview: The Point of Care (POC) Coordinator is responsible for coordinating, designing, evaluating and implementing Point of Care testing (testing activities outside of the main clinical laboratory). The POC coordinator provides technical and administrative oversight to ensure compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements related to POC including personnel, technical and quality requirements. The POC coordinator collaborates with and establishes effective relationships with Nursing and other leaders to maintain effective training and competency assessment programs and to ensure on-going compliance.

Responsibilities:

The Point of Care (POC) Coordinator is responsible for coordinating, designing, evaluating and implementing Point of Care testing (testing activities outside of the main clinical laboratory). The POC coordinator provides technical and administrative oversight to ensure compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements related to POC including personnel, technical and quality requirements. The POC coordinator collaborates with and establishes effective relationships with Nursing and other leaders to maintain effective training and competency assessment programs and to ensure on-going compliance.

Qualifications:

MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED:

Bachelors Degree from a recognized college or university in Medical Technology or a closely related field is required.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Three (3) years of clinical experience preferably in an acute care hospital setting

MINIMUM LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LAW:

Clinical Laboratory

Certification in medical technology; certification as a medical technologist or medical laboratory scientist by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP), AMT (American Medical Technologists) or AAB (American Association of Bioanalysts). AAB provisional certification not accepted.

ADDITIONAL PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Previous POC coordinator experience preferred.