Wondering if any of your facilities require a separate PCA competency be performed prior to allowing residents authority to order PCAs

We are a teaching facility and have high input of new medical staff. We started this program prior to full implementation and optimization of CPOE PCA ordersets and alaris library and are starting to wonder if the return on investment for separate training is still justifiable.

The training program is quite labor intensive and is having trouble getting all new staff competency checked prior to them starting their rotations.