I am interested to find how how many places advance the endoscopes for the Dr.'s, both EGD and Colon.
I work with surgeons and GI doc. We have 1 surgeon that can not
manipulate the scope and advance the scope at the same time.
This Dr. has recently returned to work after an absence and since we have not had to advance scope since he has been gone we are reluctant to do so now.
As one of our GI doc's said "who ever is driving the scope is doing the exam" and we are not sure we want to be "drivingtthe scope.
So ,is it common practice for nurses to drive the scope for docs?
Thanks,
LMBV