This customizable document, Waived Testing, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Home Infusion Therapy Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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Here is some sample content from Waived Testing:

	POLICY: It is the policy of this agency to instruct and train appropriately licensed staff to perform specified types of clinical laboratory specimen testing at the point of care rendered or at the client's bedside. This type of testing will be referred to as waived testing and is understood to be performed by those individuals who have the clinical expertise and licensure to perform, interpret and take appropriate action on waived tests. REQUIREMENTS: Any test requested for inclusion in the Waived Testing Index list of those tests that may be performed at the point where care is rendered,...
Second excerpt:
	...value only or if the result is to be deemed definitive for diagnosis and treatment. The policy and procedure will indicate whether the nurse is to provide treatment/ intervention, based on the test result and pursuant to a physician's order or in accordance with an approved protocol. The policy and procedure will indicate documentation requirements in the medical record, including. Criteria for confirmatory testing Reference ranges specific to the test method used and appropriate...