Can Techs Manage Nurses?

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Hello Nursing Community

Want to gather some feedback from the nursing community. I've heard from several people in leadership positions that nurses who work in electrophysiology/ operating room are not supposed to be managed by technologists. I've been looking for scholarly documentation on this and I wondering if anyone can provide feedback to assist me in this search.

The state of interest is Illinois.

Can nurses be managed by technologists? More specifically, in the electrophysiology/ operating room setting.

Please give feedback. Thanks in advance.

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

Depends in what way they are "managing". If it's all administrative (attendance/time cards, disciplinary actions, etc), there's nothing wrong with that. If you mean clinically, then yes there may be an issue

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Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.

In my state, RNs must be supervised by an RN. As Rose_Queen mentioned, things that are not directly involved with their practice might be covered by a tech in certain situations.

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Administratively, yes. Clinically, no.

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Administratively, yes. Clinically, no.

Generally, this is the same understanding I have as well.

This is a great article from a BON: https://www.ncbon.com/vdownloads/course-bulletin-offerings-articles/bulletin-article-winter-2015-whos-your-supervisor.pdf

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