Our director completes an assessment for the supervisors each year, which states that we are competent to perform our supervisory duties, one of which is assessing the competency of our staff. That was not sufficient for CAP, though, to show that I am competent to work the bench. I understand their argument, because I have worked with managers in the past who were not capable of working the bench. But, then those managers were not qualified to assess the competency of their staff, in my opinion.
In response to the CAP deficiency, I had one of my techs sign me off using the same competency form I use for the rest of the techs. The issue I have now, though, is that only 2 of the techs trained in our blood bank have bachelor's degrees, and they are not my strongest techs. The best techs I have in my department only have associate's degrees, so they're not qualified per CLIA regulations to perform competency assessments, even though they have over 20 years of experience. But, that's a whole different topic of discussion.