Competency

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Is It Time to Replace Your Document Control System? A Practical Framework

Article, CAP Compliance & Inspection Readiness, Competency, Document Control / Henry Rogland

Most labs and healthcare organizations don’t decide to replace their document control system — they endure it until the pain becomes undeniable. An inspection citation, a quality manager inheriting years of disorganized files, or a staff member pulling up an outdated SOP during a procedure. Something eventually forces the question: is what we have actually […]

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Why Spreadsheets Can’t Scale Compliance

Article, CAP Compliance & Inspection Readiness, Competency / Henry Rogland

Spreadsheets are deeply embedded in healthcare operations. They are flexible, accessible, and widely understood. For small teams managing limited data, spreadsheets are usually sufficient for tracking training records, competency validations, policy updates, and audit preparation tasks. This familiarity creates comfort. Spreadsheets feel controllable and inexpensive. They can be customized quickly and distributed easily. For many

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Why Fragmented Competency Tracking Puts Your Organization at Risk

Article, Competency / Henry Rogland

Healthcare and laboratory environments rarely operate on a single shift with a single skill set. Instead, they function across multiple shifts, departments, specialties, and credential levels. Staff rotate between days, evenings, weekends, and on-call coverage. Float pools and cross-trained employees fill operational gaps. As organizations grow or diversify services, the number of required competencies expands

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The Importance of Soft Skill Competency in Labs

Leave a Comment / Article, CAP Compliance & Inspection Readiness, Competency / Henry Rogland

The ability to collaborate, communicate, think critically, manage your calendar, and manage interpersonal relationships is crucial for the ongoing operation of your organization. Unfortunately, these soft skills are not always easy to teach, and it can sometimes be difficult to justify using limited time and resources to focus on improving them when faced with an

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Reframing Laboratory Audits: Turning a Compliance Burden into an Opportunity for Continuous Improvement

Leave a Comment / Article, CAP Compliance & Inspection Readiness, Competency / Henry Rogland

Laboratory audits are stressful, even with the most strenuous preparation. For many people, the worst part of the inspection isn’t the actual inspection. It’s the preparation. Administrators can spend weeks and months working to get themselves ready and even then, still feel a sense of apprehension. Inspections and audits are often viewed as a single

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Addressing Skill Gaps in Your Organization

Leave a Comment / Article, CAP Compliance & Inspection Readiness, Competency / Henry Rogland

At StaffReady, we often write about strategies for addressing coverage with a diminished workforce, and usually the problem is framed as a low pool of staff to schedule from. However, it isn’t always a scarcity of staff, but a scarcity of skills (or skill gaps) that makes constructing schedules and rotations challenging. In today’s piece,

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Optimizations on the Road | Making the Most of Your Mobile Lab Operations

Leave a Comment / Article, Competency, Laboratory / Henry Rogland

From 2020 onwards, largely due to Covid-19, we have seen a fundamental shift in strategy in the way we run clinical laboratories and an exponential growth in the use of mobile labs. Already used heavily for public clinics and blood donations, mobile labs have become a crucial part of the medical landscape when it comes

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Building a Compliance-First Mindset in High-Pressure Lab Environments

Leave a Comment / Article, CAP Compliance & Inspection Readiness, Competency / Henry Rogland

It is no exaggeration to say that clinical laboratories live under constant pressure. Whether it’s the pressure of maintaining compliance, meeting deadlines, or managing staff, there is always a race to meet turnaround times and keep operations moving. Compliance can sometimes feel like a checkbox, or worse, a burden. Regulatory compliance isn’t an annual activity.

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The Twice-Yearly QC Review: The Most Forgotten CLIA Requirement

Leave a Comment / Article, CAP Compliance & Inspection Readiness, Competency / Henry Rogland

Most labs are vigilant about running daily quality control. But what about the big picture? CLIA requires labs performing non-waived testing to conduct a formal, documented review of QC records at least twice a year. This is not optional and failing to do it is one of the most frequently cited deficiencies during inspections. The

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The Hidden Deficiency: Undocumented Test System Failures

Leave a Comment / Article, CAP Compliance & Inspection Readiness, Competency / Henry Rogland

Test system failures happen. It’s how your lab responds to them that determines whether you stay compliant or end up with a citation. According to CLIA and CAP, labs must document every test system failure, investigate the root cause, and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA). But some labs either fail to document these incidents

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Is It Time to Replace Your Document Control System? A Practical Framework

Why Spreadsheets Can’t Scale Compliance

Why Fragmented Competency Tracking Puts Your Organization at Risk

The Importance of Soft Skill Competency in Labs

Reframing Laboratory Audits: Turning a Compliance Burden into an Opportunity for Continuous Improvement

Addressing Skill Gaps in Your Organization

Optimizations on the Road | Making the Most of Your Mobile Lab Operations

Building a Compliance-First Mindset in High-Pressure Lab Environments

The Twice-Yearly QC Review: The Most Forgotten CLIA Requirement

The Hidden Deficiency: Undocumented Test System Failures

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